1.   One of the key things for the male is to time his departure from the first female correctly.

2.   As well as being the first UK woman to climb the mountain she intends to be the first female ever to make the ascent without oxygen.

3.   But for Hope Clarke, the first African-American female to direct a major production of the opera, Catfish Row is much more specific.

4.   But the first female was sickly and died a year ago.

5.   Butler, headed to Middle Georgia Junior College, is the first female to earn a football scholarship at a state college.

6.   Every presidential campaign revives speculation about when the republic will have its first female or minority chief executive.

7.   Four young girls from Catholic schools in New York became the first females permitted to be altar servers at a papal Mass.

8.   Gloria, the first female, had to blaze the way.

9.   Geraldine Ferraro, the first female vice presidential nominee who was expected to be a formidable Senate candidate in New York this year, lost in the Democratic primary.

10.   In June, Hingis became the first female ever to make the cover of GQ magazine.