11.   All-female workforces are trying their hand in businesses that have traditionally been a male preserve.

12.   I began to see baseball as one of the last bastions of white male athletic preserve.

13.   In engineering, long a male preserve, the ratio has dropped in half, to one woman student for every three men.

14.   It is possible, in other words, that Dixon Jones committed malpractice rather than that she was persecuted as a woman challenging a male preserve.

15.   She wanted to be on the air herself but in those days, the national reporting staff of CBS was a male preserve.

16.   The more glamorous and high-paying jobs, such as investment banking and trading, are even more of a male preserve than Wall Street itself.

17.   Today, our demure boneless chicken breasts and lean beef burgers require no such virile attention, yet barbecuing continues as a male preserve.

18.   Wall Street, which is often perceived as still being a white male preserve, has generally been uneasy about openly discussing issues of race and gender.

19.   And, more importantly, the sphere of power was a purely male preserve.

20.   However, this merely emphasizes that the federal government and local government bodies remain a male preserve.