The BBC has seen Ms Semenya's birth certificate, stating she is female.
Ireland says that when she talks to other female entrepreneurs she tells them to embrace the fact that they have a clean slate and no baggage as they build their businesses.
Well, she's certainly female and a singer, but she plays everything herself and is clearly a talent in her own right.
Halvorson, who is not yet 30, says she already sees more female jazz instrumentalists today than when she was first learning jazz.
Minutes later she met two female friends and paused briefly to chat with them in Hamilton Way.
Vonn is not alone in her quest, and she points to female golfer Anneka Sorenstam as an inspiration in her battle.
She is a female leader in a Muslim society, which is something even some members of her own government object to.
And fellow Briton Anne Keothavong said she and other female players had spent a long time practising curtseys before meeting the monarch.
She had last performed at the MTV Europe awards in 1998 when she won best female and best album for "Ray of Light".
In disguise, she used her female wiles to lure her suspects.
However, after she was shot dead during an armed robbery in 1980, the subsequent autopsy revealed she possessed male genitalia, although she also had female characteristics as well.
She explained that female African elephants (Loxodonta africana) are able to give birth from about 10-12 years but males did not reach sexual maturity until the age of 25-30 years.
Ros-Lehtinen, the one GOP woman in line to be a committee chairwoman, said she thinks the reason she and her female colleagues have not been in significant elected leadership positions is because they tend to be more vulnerable back home, where they need to keep focused.
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As a security officer looked through her belongings, she was "patted down" by a female officer - she was also asked to remove my shoes, which were examined, but the pair of boots she had put in the bag to wear in New York were not.
Plunged into a world far removed from her own experience, she nonetheless encounters the same problems with male-female power politics as she did in her marriage.
Bella Swan is a lousy role model because she relentlessly pursues a romance while Katniss Everdeen is a positive female role model because she kills people with a bow, right?
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The female entrepreneurs she studies take a much more delayed gratification approach when compensating themselves financially.
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She said in her decade and a half in Silicon Valley, she's watched female colleagues leave one-by-one.
She signed to Mercury Records, where she became their star female vocalist, selling more than 100 million records.
She became the first female member of the Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association, an organization founded by her uncle.
And she was the first female Banda artist to sell-out a concert at the Gibson Amphitheater in Universal City, California.
She was working as an advocacy adviser when she first came across female genital mutilation and started her campaign against it.
As a 5-foot-10-inch, slender female, she never had an easy time consistently finding clothes that fit well among different styles and brands.
She is the leading female driver in motorsport, but has not given any indication of moving over to the world of Formula One.
She is the first female recipient of the prize since Kathleen Jamie in 2004, and the first American woman to receive the honour.
In Kelly's case, she had assumed her female boss might want to help foster her growth out of some sense of female solidarity.
She said she helped bring along female GOP candidates this year.
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