An Afghan burqa-clad woman carries a child as she walks along a road in Herat on October 1, 2023. (Photo by Mohsen Karimi/AFP Photo)

Chinese woman Duo Zirong feeds stray cats at her home February 14, 2006 in Shanghai, China. Duo Zirong, a Daur ethnic minority group woman from Inner Mongolia and reported as the “Cat Woman”, has housed about 300 cats with her Shanghainese husband Liu Junluo and mother-in-law. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

A woman has her photo taken wearing tradtional clothing as a Tibetan Buddhist woman and her family walk the kora near the Jokhang Temple, a UNESCO heritage site, during a government organized visit for journalists on June 1, 2021 in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

A Tibetan woman with horses in a remote area of the Yushu Autonomous Prefecture of the Tibetan Plateau on May 31, 2016. (Photo by Giulia Marchi/The Washington Post)

An Iraqi woman attends a festival commemorating the International Day of Peace in Baghdad, September 21, 2015. (Photo by Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters)

A woman takes part in a “Brave Run” competition in Minsk October 4, 2015. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)

A woman performs during a march to commemorate International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, in Bogota, November 25, 2015. (Photo by John Vizcaino/Reuters)

A woman sits in a cell at the Los Angeles County Women's jail in Lynwood, California April 26, 2013. (Photo by Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)