1.   Another woman, Shannon Faulkner, broke the gender barrier at the school the previous year, but dropped out after only a few days.

2.   A less cozy, more reckless female will someday break the gender barrier.

3.   Female lawyers who have succeeded in rising to the top of the profession say they were able to overcome gender barriers by pushing them aside.

4.   Her breaking of the gender barrier alone would transform the image of classical music in America.

5.   If she has yet to break a world record, Price and her competitors have shattered the gender barrier that once obstructed the sport.

6.   In a culture that has been working overtime to break down gender barriers and eliminate old-boy clubs, the basement continues to resist integration.

7.   In the military as in civilian life, creating a gender barrier is no way to deal with sexual misconduct.

8.   Leslie Revsin broke the gender barrier in the kitchens of the Waldorf-Astoria.

9.   Like Shannon Faulkner, who broke the gender barrier at the Citadel military academy, the battle to gain access took everything Gera had.

10.   No matter what happened on Election Day, the campaign was tearing down gender barriers and opening doors of opportunity.