Most female-only floors have added extra security--usually a key-card door and a female-only staff.
The latest measure lays down that women in hospital must be treated by female staff only.
Services like buses and cabs, as well as female-only hotel floors, have also become increasingly common in the country.
By the late nineteen-fifties, seventy-five per cent of the women who worked were in female-only, mainly service jobs.
An all-male Cambridge University drinking society has cancelled its annual female-only jelly wrestling contest after it was labelled sexist.
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This sort of catered service seems to have replaced the trend of "female-only" floors that surfaced in the hospitality industry last year.
Currently, male and female Olympians only compete head-to-head in equestrian and sailing.
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"Women are waiting to come in to use it, " he said, adding that there was a shortage of female-only centres in the country.
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Cheryl Fleet founded Canyon Calling, a female-only adventure company, in 1996.
It was remembered that, as a minister, he once allowed a woman singer to perform in public (even though it was to a female audience only, the Islamic Republic bans any woman singing solo).
But in 2007, with no formal training, Pic became the only female chef in France (and only the fourth woman in history) to earn the culinary world's top honor -- a three-Michelin-star rating -- for her family's restaurant, La Maison Pic, in the Rhone-Alpes town of Valence.
The province was also the home of the Bolebedu, a small tribe but with a rather impressive leader, Queen Modjadji V, the only female tribal leader in southern Africa, and perhaps the only one in the world with a reputation as a rainmaker.
Only about 20% of male-to-female transgender people have had genital reconstruction surgery, and only about 5% of female-to-male, estimates Walter Bockting, a psychologist at the University of Minnesota medical school who has 20 years of clinical experience working with transgender patients.
She took office in 1979, becoming the U.K.'s first and only female prime minister.
Even the average-earning female will collect only 90 cents per dollar of payroll taxes.
Health Minister Deputy Anne Pryke is the only female politician to hold a ministerial position.
Zurer said she had a blast being the only female lead in the film.
The only female athletes in Wie's vicinity are tennis stars Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams.
Britain's only female prime minister, Thatcher served from 1979 to 1990 as leader of the Conservative Party.
The actress has the only female role in the film, alongside actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Sir Ben Kingsley.
Singaporean Olivia Lum, age 45, debuts at number 39 as the list's youngest, and only female, member.
In America and Britain the typical full-time female worker earns only about 80% as much as the typical male.
Blackburn and Greider are the only female team to win together in medicine--ever.
Complaints that his books featured no strong female characters met only contemptuous dismissal.
The chief beneficiary of those troubles, say Sapir and his lawyers, is Luzhkov's wife, Elena Baturina, Russia's only female billionaire.
Dorset's only female MP Annette Brooke has announced she will stand down at the next General Election in May 2015.
Mrs Palin is the kind of female politician that only a certain kind of redneck, red-state, red-meat guy could vote for.
Wie, the only female player in the field, opened with a 1-under 71 and shot a 74 in the rain-delayed second round.
Sarabi is a pharmacist and the only female governor in the country.
The Russian-born Sharapova who moved to Florida at age 7 is one of the only female players that resonates with the U.S. public.
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