Financial Times journalist Julie MacIntosh took on a story that would put the He-Man Woman Haters Club to shame.
But here's what he also saw -- he saw a woman who kept getting up every day, doing that same job year after year without complaint or regret.
On discovering the compere was the Australian comic Julia Morris - a woman no less - he asked for a discount, before calling back to cancel the booking.
The centre-left candidate, Pier Luigi Bersani, said in Milan on Sunday night that the country was facing ruin whilst Mr Berlusconi was preoccupied with Ruby - the young woman he is accused of paying as an under-aged prostitute.
But the thing that Barack saw, that I saw -- he saw a woman who never complained.
Blake said his toddler daughter, Rose -- his child with the woman he is accused of killing, Bonny Lee Bakley -- is scheduled to visit him next week.
Bastani confessed what was bothering him -- he barely knew this woman.
He imagined this fortune-telling woman at first as frumpy and middle-aged, but, when she came to give Suzie a lift to school one morning, Menna looked like a child, not much older than Jamie.
In Holy Smoke Keitel really breaks new ground, because - as a result of his character's mind games with the young woman he is trying to de-programme - he ends up wearing lipstick and sporting a red frock.
He was joined at his victory speech by the Argentine woman - now his fiancee - with whom he was having an extramarital affair in 2009.
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After the funeral, he embarks on a spur-of-the-moment road trip with a young woman he just met, played by Kirsten Dunst.
During his years in local and state politics, Coolidge did take a number of forward-looking positions: he favored woman suffrage, voted for a minimum wage, and, as a Yankee able to get his share of the burgeoning Irish-Catholic vote, was generally sympathetic to immigration.
Jones said he sat across from an 84-year-old woman who said she hoped she lived long enough to vote for Obama, because he "is going to be president one day, " Jones recalls.
When asked about abortion, Romney said he was wrong in favoring a woman's right to choose -- his position when he was elected governor of Massachusetts.
The story goes that a man, riding a horse-drawn cart, said he was close enough to see that the woman was wearing a light-coloured dress and a bonnet with a ribbon.
Antinori first attracted controversy when he helped a 62-year-old woman have a baby eight years ago by implanting an egg in her womb.
Berlusconi has denied ever paying for sex and both he and the woman, Karima el-Mahroug, better known as Ruby, deny having any sexual contact.
It wasn't until McLaren-Morris signed up to a website catering specifically for boating enthusiasts, LoveSail.com, that he found the woman of his dreams -- 45-year-old former superyacht hostess Wendy Robson-Burrell.
They found the wife from whom he was separated -- or rather the woman who thought she was his wife, though they were obliged to tell her that Frank Harling was, among other things, a bigamist.
Te'o said they were from the person he believed to be Lennay Kekua, a woman he had fallen for online but never met face-to-face.
For a moment he is entranced by a sophisticated grey-haired woman across the road, her face obscured by a plunging hat brim.
To show how ridiculous that question is, let me alter it just a bit: Can someone fall in love--really, truly, deeply in love--if he was initially attracted to a woman for her legs?
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor -- who made history with Reagan when he nominated her in 1981 to be the first woman to serve on the high court -- will give a reading, as will Rabbi Harold Kushner.
Now we can see what so many other filmmakers have seen (and discussed reverentially) in this poetic story of a young barge captain on the Seine -- "L'Atalante" is the name of his boat -- and the lovely young woman he marries and almost loses.
But what he also saw was a woman that never complained -- never complained.
But he married a Sunni woman, and his in-laws were among those ordered to leave.
For help he turns to a young woman, a Sorbonne-trained historian who is also a griotte.
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Jesse Disney, 26, died in the fire, as did the woman he planned to marry, 22-year-old Nina Nicole Asher.
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