The trekking industry in Nepal may still be a male-dominated business, but three sisters are slowly chipping away at its gender gap.

BBC: Breaking the glass ceiling of trekking

There are other women I know who head to male-dominated fields, and they might be facing similar challenges.

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This is the same woman who admits (in her memoir This Child Will Be Great) that she grew up in a male-dominated community, where women were second-class citizens and reminded of that on a regular basis.

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Women have fought long and hard to be included in the boardrooms and backrooms of an oft male-dominated society, but let's face it, sometimes they just want things men probably don't--like a curling iron or a copy of O, the Oprah magazine.

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Some women especially in industries that remain male-dominated assume that their perches may be pulled from beneath them at any given moment (and many times, they are indeed encouraged to feel this way).

WSJ: The Tyranny of the Queen Bee

She made a commitment to serving Jesus Christ and was not about to back away from her call to ministry because a male-dominated organization decided that its interpretation of the Bible calls for a woman not to be in the pulpit.

CNN: Commentary: Christian bookstore's shameful actions

While many clean technology leaders come from the male-dominated oil and gas and utility industries, research suggests that women are more likely to be drawn to cleantech because it serves a higher purpose of creating a sustainable environment for this generation and beyond.

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Like its male equivalent, the Americans dominated the event's early years, prompting calls for the competition to be changed to a US v the rest of the world affair, only for an indignant Europe to hit back in recent contests.

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