Jackson was a maverick, way ahead of her female contemporaries.

However, her female contemporaries failed to produce a direct unbroken female line to any living woman in the present day.

When, in the 1970s, the service began running out of colonial military-types, she and other 'well-educated' female contemporaries watched the promotion of men younger and less experienced than themselves.

She had few female literary contemporaries until the 1980s.

Her occasional forays into more purely Western songs also set her apart from her female contemporaries on both sides of the Atlantic.

Meanwhile, few of their female contemporaries enjoy anything like that degree of recognition or box-office clout.

Jesus, her female contemporaries in Hollywood must really want to throttle her given the way she's been relentlessly hoovering up all the plum roles of late.

Like many of her female contemporaries, she learned to sew.

Unlike many of her contemporaries, Grandval wrote many pieces for oboe, and unlike her female contemporaries, she wrote several operas.

In setting aside the most fundamental principles of her female contemporaries in order to protect her own political viability, Hillary Clinton has demonstrated that she cannot be trusted.