"We should go beyond gender politics and racial politics, and we should pick the best person for the job, " said Rep. Peter King, who was mentioned as a candidate for the Senate seat in 2010.

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Japan has a very long way to go to for gender equality.

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Certainly, we still have a way to go to reach gender equality, but just a few decades ago, women were chastised for wearing pants in public.

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Both the United States and Japan have a long way to go to reach gender parity, and both can work together to change the mindset toward female leadership.

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It's no secret that we still have a long way to go before achieving gender equity in the fields collectively known as STEM: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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Asian countries have a long way to go in terms of gender equality.

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Now the idea that there is a gender imbalance in those who go into scientific studies and employment might be true, the thought that we might do something about this could also be reasonable.

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If you want to become a professor of gender studies, this is the way to go.

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Although blatant gender discrimination is becoming more rare as the years go by, subtle and unwitting assumptions and actions by otherwise well-intentioned senior managers still hold women back.

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To abide by it was an assault to her aesthetic sensibilities and her ethic as the go-to-goddess of tree pruning, to say nothing of the gender bias.

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