Although most equipment producers today have designs entirely for women, it was not until about six or seven years ago that the gear was truly for women rather adapting men's models.
Antenatal clinics are women's spaces and not easily adapted to accommodate men.
But there were plenty of other officers who came, looked and adapted -- men like Lt. Col. John Paul Vann and Lt. Gen. Lewis W. Walt, the commander in the most northerly sector of South Vietnam.
The flip side is that they rarely travel abroad or beyond the small screen, and due to the lack of Japanese female directors, most are adapted by men, the most recent being Hirokazu Kore-eda's delicate family saga Our Little Sister, a retelling of Akimi Yoshid's Umimachi Diary, in competition at Cannes this year.
Most guidelines, screening and fracture risk evaluation methods as well as pharmacologic agents have been developed for women and then adapted to men.
It was adapted from men's health questionnaires developed by Grupo Compañeros Ciudad Juárez and Intersex 2006 (EMIS) in Spain.
The electron-to-chemical energy conversion model has inspired the development of various electrochemical energy devices adapted to man's demand.
For example, An. plumbeus has recently adapted to man-made artificial breeding sites and is undergoing a highly expanding distribution in Belgium (Dekoninck et al., 2011b).
Some pathogenic Salmonella serotypes adapted to man, such as S. typhimurium, usually cause severe diseases such as enteric fever in humans.
Men will be men, so it is believed; as women, our focus should be on adapting to men, not demanding partners who fulfill our needs.
"Women in Japanese politics are so minor, so they have had to adapt to men's norms and practices," said Mari Miura, a professor of political science at Sophia University in Tokyo.
