11.   Hawthorne said there was an increase in violence and sexual assaults against women this year, even though there were fewer participants.

12.   Imagine, all these years women have wasted, trying to have their athletic endeavors taken seriously, when sympathy was what we should have been after!

13.   One of two women this year to earn a spot on the national team.

14.   Soccer moms are vying with waitress moms and Social Security women this year as the demographic group of choice in the presidential campaign.

15.   The leading cause of serious, long-term disability in the United States, stroke kills twice as many women each year as breast cancer.

16.   This was supposed to be the year women stormed political office in Massachusetts.

17.   A law requring black men to obtain special permits to enter white areas was extended to women that year.

18.   Despite tough laws for crimes such as rape, there has been an increase in violence against women every year, according to police and human rights groups.

19.   Most egregious is the return of an old evil, the kidnapping of thousands of rural women each year for sale as wives or prostitutes.

20.   Republicans are also targeting Hispanics, Catholics and women this year.