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priming women with a sense of their own power:
Katie J. Van Loo and Robert J. Rydell, “On the Experience of Feeling Powerful: Perceived Power Moderates the Effect of Stereotype Threat on Women’s Math Performance,”
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
39, no. 3 (2013): 387–400.

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The antics of Secret Service men:
CNN Wire Staff, “Secret Service Agents Relieved in Colombia Amid Prostitution Allegations,” CNN World, April 14, 2012, http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/14/world/americas/colombia-summit-secret-service/, accessed Sept. 14, 2014. In the end the men got light punishments, and their actions do not seem to have been unusual: Shane Harris, “Secret Service Prostitution Scandal: One Year Later,”
Washingtonian,
April 2013 issue, accessed Sept. 14, 2014, at http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/secret-service-prostitution-scandal-one-year-later/index.php.

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Former Senator’s scandal and mistrial:
David Zucchino, “John Edwards Not Guilty on 1 Count, Mistrial Declared in Other 5,”
Los Angeles Times,
May 31, 2012, accessed Sept. 14, 2014, at http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/31/news/la-pn-john-edwards-trial-verdict-20120531. As of 2014 he had returned to his former career as a trial lawyer representing victims of alleged medical malpractice: Catalina Camia, “John Edwards Back in N.C. Court as a Trial Lawyer,”
USA Today
, April 16, 2014, at http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2014/04/16/john-edwards-trial-lawyer-medical-malpractice/, accessed Sept. 14, 2014.

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France had chosen a new leader:
The malefactor, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is favored in some polls to replace the man at the top who replaced him, according to
France 24,
March 5, 2014, at http://www.france24.com/en/20140305-dsk-strauss-kahn-best-man-run-france-hollande-poll/, accessed Sept. 14, 2014. According
to the article, which summarizes the New York episode, Strauss-Kahn still faces charges in France for other alleged sex-related offenses. However, with a new film about him starring Gérard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bisset, despite its unflattering portrayal, he has made several public appearances and seems to continue to relish the limelight: Sylvie Kaufmann, “Why D.S.K. Won’t Go Away,”
New York Times,
May 24, 2014, accessed Sept. 14, 2014 at http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/opinion/sunday/why-dsk-wont-go-away.html.

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San Diego mayor:
Josh Levs and David Simpson, “Ex-San Diego Mayor Sentenced to Home Confinement for Assaulting Women,”
CNN Justice,
December 9, 2013, at http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/09/justice/ex-san-diego-mayor-bob-filner-sentencing/, accessed Sept. 14, 2014; and Laila Kearney, “Ex-San Diego Mayor Bob Filner released from house arrest,” Reuters Edition: US, April 7, 2014, at http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/07/us-usa-california-filner-idUSBREA361SM20140407, accessed Sept. 14, 2014.

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The embattled mayor of Toronto:
Carol J. Williams, “Rob Ford quits Toronto mayor's race but plans to run for City Council,”
Los Angeles Times
, Sept. 12, 2014, at http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-rob-ford-withdraws-toronto-mayor-race-20140912-story.html, accessed Sept. 14, 2014.

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California governor fathers child by nanny:
CNN Wire Staff, “Schwarzenegger Admits Habit of Keeping Secrets, Including Multiple Affairs,”
CNN U.S.,
October 2, 2012, at http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/30/us/schwarzenegger-interview/, accessed Sept. 14, 2014.

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New York governor hires prostitutes:
Michael M. Grynbaum, “Spitzer Resigns, Citing Personal Failings,”
New York Times,
March 12, 2008, accessed Sept. 14, 2014, at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/nyregion/12cnd-resign.html?pagewanted=all; and Michael M. Grynbaum, “Spitzer and His Wife Say Their Marriage Is Over,”
New York Times,
December 24, 2013, at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/25/nyregion/spitzer-and-his-wife-say-their-marriage-is-over.html?ref=eliotlspitzer&_r=0, accessed Sept. 14, 2014.

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New Jersey Governor admits harassment, resigns:
David Kocieniewski, “The Governor Resigns: The Decision; A Governor’s Downfall, in 20 Wrenching Days,”
New York Times,
August 15, 2004, accessed Sept. 14, 2014,
at http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/15/nyregion/the-governor-resigns-the-decision-a-governor-s-downfall-in-20-wrenching-days.html?ref=jamesemcgreevey. This story appears to have had a happy ending: Michelle Green, “James McGreevey, This Side of Redemption,”
New York Times,
March 27, 2013, accessed Sept. 14, 2014, at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/fashion/this-side-of-redemption.html?ref=jamesemcgreevey.

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South Carolina governor out of touch:
Peter Hamby and Kristy Keck, “South Carolina Gov. Sanford Admits Extramarital Affair,”
CNN Politics.com,
June 24, 2009, at http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/24/south.carolina.governor/, accessed Sept. 14, 2014.

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“Hiking the Appalachian Trail”:
Kim Severson, “Looking Past Sex Scandal, South Carolina Returns Ex-Governor to Congress,”
New York Times,
May 7, 2013, at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/us/south-carolina-election-a-referendum-on-sanford.html, accessed Sept. 14, 2014.

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Congressman texts explicit photos and messages:
Raymond Hernandez, “Weiner Resigns in Chaotic Final Scene,”
New York Times,
June 16, 2011, at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/nyregion/anthony-d-weiner-tells-friends-he-will-resign.html?pagewanted=all; and CNN Staff, “Congress, Lewd Photos and NYC’s Mayoral Race: An Anthony Weiner Timeline,”
CNN Politics,
July 24, 2013, at http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/24/politics/weiner-timeline/, both accessed Sept. 14, 2014.

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Probable impact of Clinton scandal and impeachment:
Miller Center, University of Virginia, “Bill Clinton: Impact and Legacy,” accessed Sept. 14, 2014, at http://millercenter.org/president/clinton/essays/biography/9.

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Catholic Church sexual abuse:
See “Roman Catholic Church Sex Abuse Cases,”
New York Times,
Times Topics, April 18, 2014; for links to many articles, see http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/roman_catholic_church_sex_abuse_cases/, accessed Sept. 14, 2014.

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Orthodox Jewish child molesters:
Sharon Ottoman and Ray Rivera, “Ultra-Orthodox Shun Their Own for Reporting Child Sexual Abuse,”
New York Times,
May 9, 2012, at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/nyregion/ultra-orthodox-jews-shun-their-own-for-reporting-child-sexual-abuse.html?pagewanted=all, accessed Sept. 14, 2014.

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Major university football coach:
CNN Library, “Penn State Scandal Fast Facts,”
CNN U.S.,
April 6, 2014, at http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/28/us/penn-state-scandal-fast-facts/, accessed Sept. 14, 2014. Sandusky’s appeal of his verdict was denied by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on April 2, 2014.

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Horace Mann School cover-up:
Amos Kamil, “Prep-School Predators: The Horace Mann School’s Secret History of Sexual Abuse,”
New York Times,
June 6, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/magazine/the-horace-mann-schools-secret-history-of-sexual-abuse.html?pagewanted=all, accessed Sept. 14, 2014.

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Illinois governor went to jail:
Monica Davey, “Blagojevich Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison,”
New York Times,
December 7, 2011, accessed Sept. 14, 2014, at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/us/blagojevich-expresses-remorse-in-courtroom-speech.html.

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Louisiana Congressman stored $90,000 in freezer:
Dave Cook, “Former Rep. William Jefferson Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison,”
Christian Science Monitor,
November 13, 2009, accessed Sept. 14, 2014, at http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2009/1113/former-rep-william-jefferson-sentenced-to-13-years-in-prison.

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New York Congressman censured for corruption:
David Kocieniewski, “Rangel Censured Over Violations of Ethics Rules,”
New York Times,
December 2, 2010, at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/nyregion/03rangel.html?pagewanted=all, accessed Sept. 14, 2014.

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Martha Stewart went to jail:
Constance L. Hays, “Martha Stewart’s Sentence: The Overview; 5 Months in Jail, and Stewart Vows, ‘I’ll Be Back,’”
New York Times,
July 17, 2004, accessed Sept. 14, 2004, at http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/17/business/martha-stewart-s-sentence-overview-5-months-jail-stewart-vows-ll-be-back.html.

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Mladic on trial for mass murder:
“Ratko Mladic Trial Blocks Move to Drop Genocide Charges,”
BBC News Europe,
April 15, 2014, accessed Sept. 14, 2014, at http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27032446; and Allan Little, “Defiant Mladic Before War Crimes Court,”
BBC News Europe,
May 16, 2012, accessed Sept. 14, 2014, at http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18098463.

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Former Liberia president gets fifty years:
Owen Bowcott, “Charles Taylor’s 50-Year Sentence Upheld at War Crimes Tribunal: Former Liberian President Is Now Likely to Be Sent to UK to Spend Rest of His Life in Jail,”
Guardian,
September 26, 2013,
at http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/charles-taylor-liberian-president-sentence-upheld, accessed Sept. 14, 2014.

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Genocide in Darfur:
For links to many articles, see Times Topics, “Omar Hassan al-Bashir,”
New York Times,
updated and accessed Sept. 14, 2014, at http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/omar_hassan_al_bashir/index.html.

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Pol Pot:
Seth Mydans, “Death Of Pol Pot: Pol Pot, Brutal Dictator Who Forced Cambodians to Killing Fields, Dies at 73,”
New York Times,
April 17, 1998, at http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/17/world/death-pol-pot-pol-pot-brutal-dictator-who-forced-cambodians-killing-fields-dies.html, accessed Sept. 14, 2014.

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Slobodan Milosevic:
Molly Moore and Daniel Williams, “Milosevic Found Dead in Prison,”
Washington Post,
March 12, 2006, accessed Sept. 14, 2014, at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/11/AR2006031100525.html.

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Rwanda genocide:
“The ICTR Remembers: 20th Anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide,” website of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, April 10, 2014, at http://unmict.org/ictr-remembers/, accessed Sept. 14, 2014.

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Central African Republic on the verge of genocide:
Josie Ensor, “Ban Ki-moon Warns of Rwandan Genocide Repeat in Central African Republic,”
Telegraph,
April 6, 2014, accessed April 18, 2014, at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/centralafricanre/files/05/85/00/f058500/public/10747572/Ban-Ki-moon-warns-of-Rwandan-genocide-repeat-in-Central-African-Republic.html.

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“rape as a means of perpetrating genocide”:
“The ICTR Remembers,” http://unmict.org/ictr-remembers/, fully cited above. The self-description is quoted from the home page.

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Rape as genocide in Sudan:
David Scheffer, “Sudan and the ICC: Rape as Genocide,”
New York Times,
November 3, 2008, accessed Sept. 14, 2014, at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/opinion/03iht-edscheffer.1.18365231.html.

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Women drivers:
Jason Kandel, “Insurance Study: Women Are Better Drivers Than Men,”
NBC News,
January 12, 2012, accessed Sept. 14, 2014, at http://business.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/01/12/10142027-insurance-study-women-are-better-drivers-than-men; see also Anemona Hartocollis, “For Women Who Drive, the Stereotypes Die Hard,”
New York Times,
August 17, 2010,
at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/nyregion/18drivers.html, accessed Sept. 14, 2014.

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“Women in Sports”: Time,
July 26, 1978. To see the cover, go to http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19780626,00.html, accessed Sept. 14, 2014. A link to the article “Comes the Revolution: Joining the Game at Last, Women Are Transforming American Athletics” is provided there. For the Mia Hamm photo, visit http://www.values.com/inspirational-sayings-billboards/56-passion; another example is here: http://academic.reed.edu/anthro/faculty/mia/Images/Gallery/Pics/soccerwoman.jpg, both accessed Sept. 14, 2014.

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Women in sports statistics and history:
R. Vivian Acosta and Linda Jean Carpenter, “Women in Intercollegiate Sport: A Longitudinal, National Study, Thirty Seven Year Update, 1977–2014” (unpublished manuscript), available for downloading at www.acostacarpenter.org, accessed Sept. 14, 2014. The estimates quoted here are based on data on p. 1.

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Women at West Point:
Larry Abramson, “West Point Women: A Natural Pattern or a Camouflage Ceiling?”
Morning Edition,
National Public Radio (NPR) website, October 22, 2013, at http://www.npr.org/2013/10/22/239260015/west-point-women-a-natural-pattern-or-a-camouflage-ceiling, accessed Sept. 14, 2014.

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Women in combat roles:
See, for example, the
Christian Science Monitor
’s photo gallery at http://www.csmonitor.com/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Women-in-Combat#514100, accessed Sept. 14, 2014; see also CNN Staff, “Pentagon Says Women in All Combat Units by 2016,”
CNN Politics,
June 18, 2013, accessed Sept. 14, 2014, at http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/18/politics/women-combat/.

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The majority graduating are women:
Christopher B. Swanson, “U.S. Graduation Rate Continues Decline,”
Education Week,
June 2, 2010, accessed Sept. 14, 2014, at http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/06/10/34swanson.h29.html; “College Enrollment and Work Activity of 2012 High School Graduates,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, April 17, 2013, accessed Sept. 14, 2014, at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/hsgec.nr0.htm; “Digest of Education Statistics,” table 258, National Center for Education Statistics, accessed Sept. 14, 2014, at http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/tables/dt07_258.asp.