>>520981354 (OP)
It seems that young, unmarried Scythian women would sometimes accompany the men on raids. It's hard to judge how common this was as almost everything we know about them comes from foreign writers who were just amazed at the concept of female warriors at all, but the Scythian style of warfare was mounted archery, so it's not hard to believe that women might have participated in a form of combat that emphasised manoeuvrability and accuracy over strength and close-combat fighting. And this would have been in small skirmishes rather than pitched battles. This gave rise to the legend of the Amazons, incidentally.
Japanese women of the samurai class were trained in the basics of archery, swordsmanship, and particularly with polearms. The naginata was considered especially suitable for women as it allowed them to overcome the large reach advantage a male opponent had, and its thrusting technique required less strength than a slashing weapon like the katana. Although they wouldn't accompany the men into battle, they were expected to defend their homes while their men were away at war, and otherwise defend their honour.
The most recent TV adaptation of Shogun had some good examples of samurai women using the naginata:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddJ8wvIIunw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsONPIdluYU
Other than that, female warriors have historically been very rare. There are a few references to women in Viking raiding parties but it seems like it probably wasn't very common. Other than that, most cultures have either not encouraged women fighting or have outright forbidden it.
>>520983045
Boudicca was a queen, not a warrior. And as
>>520983580 points out, not even a particularly good one; her successes were slaughtering civilians and isolated garrisons, then she got btfo by the first real field army she came across.
