Devices, badges or imprese, modalities of emblematics, were used by women between the 14th and 17th centuries, although less frequently than by men. This study analyses a little more than two dozen historical devices of ladies of the XVth and XVIth centuries from the perspective of emblematic genre theory. It deals with various aspects such as the structure, the personal involvement of the owners in the design of their devices, the purpose andmanners of displaying wit employed in their composition, etc., and concludes that there are no noticeable differences between women's devices and the masculine ones, except that the impreseof ladies crafted for special occasions (to display in the course of celebrations ?invenciones?) did not contain messages of praise to males nor amorous laments, which would have been interpreted as somewhat vulgar and in bad taste, according to the mentality of the time, while gentlemen produced a large number of amorous devices.   KEYWORDS: Emblem Studies; Devices; Badges; imprese;Women; Fifteenth Century; Sixteenth Century; Visual Culture; Middle Ages; Renaissance.