Marin Alsop is the first woman to be chosen to conduct a major American symphony.

NPR: Marin Alsop Takes over Baltimore Symphony

The Colorado Party has for the first time chosen a woman candidate, Blanca Ovelar, who has promised to bring a woman's sensibility to a "clearly macho country".

BBC: Paraguayans vote in key elections

It was with these words that Barbra Streisand announced the end of one of the longest omissions in the 82-year history of the Oscars -- a woman had finally been chosen as Best Director.

CNN: March on The Screening Room

The first woman Speaker, Betty Boothroyd (Labour) was chosen in 1992 (in the first contested election since 1951).

BBC: Women in parliament

Here was a woman with scruples less developed than her own, someone who had chosen to be not frightened but entertained by her new neighborhood, someone who soldiered on with her elective surgery even when her best friend got a diagnosis of cancer.

NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle

The expectations are somehow that (a woman is) not capable of being with a grown man and has thus chosen to date someone who our society thinks of as a boy.

CNN: Cougars in training: Young women dating even younger men

The new leader, Fernando Collor de Mello, had chosen as his finance minister the unrelated Zelia Cardoso de Mello, the first woman to occupy the post.

BBC: Will Cyprus go the South American way?