This role model will vanish at a time when the company is seeking passionate, qualified, and high performing female candidates for its sales division.

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The Air Force confirmed arrangements have been reached in the sensitive case involving the division's first female B-52 pilot.

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The only other female driver currently involved in the elite division of motorsport is Susie Wolff, who is a development driver with Williams.

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But as humans brought the idea of division of labour north, the female side of the bargain gave the species a significant advantage by providing fallback foods when big game was scarce and allowing more people to inhabit a given piece of land in times of plenty.

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Even men can strap on stilettos for male-division runs in Buffalo, New York and the Philippines, refusing to let female footwear give them cold feet.

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Explanations of a specifically female propensity to shoplift fly in the face of statistics, which, for decades, have shown the gender division of shoplifting consistently hovering around the fifty-fifty mark.

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