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Matt Dillon, from Hardwick Hall, said: "Given our history and connection with Bess of Hardwick, it feels fitting that female runners made their mark on the event here."
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
How Gilt Groupe helped pave the way for female startup founders in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Those numbers haven’t changed much over the last decade: all-female founding teams accounted for 4.3% of deal count in 2016, while teams with at least one female founder made up 16.6% that year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Two years ago, five Americans were nominated for the female Ballon d’Or, which is presented annually to the best player in the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Though there was no longer any female air force unit for them to be part of, pilot Antonina Bondareva and two other women from the 125th continued to serve in a male regiment.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
When wild females mated with them, they produced no viable offspring, gradually driving the population toward collapse.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Three days after the Sept. 11 attacks, I walked into my office at an Episcopalian refugee resettlement organization in New Haven, Conn. There sat five females colleagues with their heads covered in hijabs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
In running distances up to the marathon, there is on average a 10-12% performance gap between males and females.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
"Interestingly, one of the females has come back into the enclosure to lay some eggs, which is incredibly encouraging," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The survival of a species also depended upon how successful males and females were in reproducing their lines.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
