But that was when women still expected to have to fight for their rights.

It is men who decide what a woman can reasonably expect of life.

Now, for the first time, more women than men expect to attend graduate schools as well.

This time, the two women expect much of the town to stand with them.

Black women's life expectancy, in 2004, was 69.52 years, while white women could expect to live 73.80 on average.

Men and women born between 1910-12 could expect to live an average 53 years.

Statistics tell us that every man, woman and child can expect to go into hospital a number of times during their lives.

She'd heard of men who lost interest in their wives when the women were expecting a baby.

A woman who turned 65 the same year can expect to live about another 20.8 years.

Never expected to discover in Laura a woman like this.