1.   Diplomatically, she pointed to where her male colleagues were standing.

2.   Few were in the top echelons, and they regularly fell behind their male colleagues in promotions and salary increases.

3.   If two male colleagues had gone on holiday, she said, neither would have been sacked.

4.   In practice women receive much lower wages than their male colleagues.

5.   Leslie was hurt after racing to back up male colleagues trying to catch the suspect in Wavertree, Liverpool.

6.   Most women can recognize an inappropriate pass by a male colleague.

7.   Our engineers described how their male colleagues had problems finding topics of social conversation outside work.

8.   She discovered that her male colleagues were earning more than she was.

9.   She was paid as much as her male colleagues, and earned every penny.