Iraqi Kurdish women train weight lifting at a centre in Iraq's Kurdish regional capital of Arbil on February 2, 2022. Women's sports have developed at a sluggish pace across much of conservative Iraq, which has struggled through decades of conflict. But the Kurdistan region was spared the brunt of the violence and destruction, and its infrastructure, facilities and government funding have paved the way for a boom in professional women's sports. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)

Women wear traditional Hanbok dresses as they walk past fallen autumn leaves in Seoul on November 21, 2022. (Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP Photo)

Women stand on the “martyrs' bridge” spanning the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, February 24, 2023. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)

Women dressed as nuns pose for pictures during Halloween celebrations in the Shibuya district in Tokyo, Japan October 31, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)

Women in costumes walk as they participate in Halloween celebrations in the downtown of Seoul, South Korea, October 31, 2015. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)

Afghan women and a boy make their way in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, November 15, 2015. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)

Women wearing sunglasses pose for a group photo at a park in Beijing in 1980. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)

Women dressed as a rabbit and a fox, who pose for pictures with tourists, walk in central Kiev, Ukraine April 4, 2018. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)