The sport was later included, with women being represented in equal numbers to their male peers.

Sometimes, its believed, girls under perform, to avoid embarrassing male peers.

He is a very popular boy with both his female classmates and some of his male peers.

And she seems to have felt her isolation as a woman among her male peers.

First, we would perpetuate the present situation in which most women at upper levels don't have families, while the majority of their male peers do.

But she still doesn't have the same powers as her male peers.

"I want my prices to be the same as my male peers," she says.

Young women between the age of 27 and 33 earned 98%, nearly as much as their male peers.

Suddenly this girl, who may not be getting such responses from her male peers, is hooked.

Men tend to choose to work with male peers, she said, many of whom they have known for years.