1) Try this thought experiment:
A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene. The son is badly injured and rushed to the nearest hospital for surgery. Once in the operating room, the surgeon looks at the boy and says, "I can't operate on this boy. He's my son." How can this be if the father just died?
80% of people given this riddle say something to the effect of, "Well, perhaps the father who died at the scene was the boy's adopted father. The surgeon is the boy's biological father." Only 20% get the right answer.
The surgeon is the boy's mother.
2) In 2012, Fredonia named Virginia Horvath its 13th president, the first woman to hold the position in 186 years. I didn't hear the news until the following month when I started as assistant coach. While we were in the dining hall, a colleague pointed to a group of men and women in suits, "That's the new president."
"What's his name?" I asked. It didn't occur to me that the new president could have been one of the women in the group.
"Power" and "Woman" are often unrelated concepts to our unconscious minds; a good reason for women's sports to exist.