That was an early theme at the time of the dawn of modern science, when science fiction was being invented by Robert Louis Stevenson in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and it has re-emerged in what we fear is the late nuclear age with a string of ape-men, panther-men, snake-men, even a block-of-flats woman, in Ghostbusters.
Among the sprawling sky rise flats, women pushed their children home in prams, and a likely lad made his way to the estate's reception.
"My husband died a year before the earthquake, and my daughter and I lived in a fifth-floor flat," the woman began.
All present and correct, on flat shoes, women striding meaningfully off to work.
Earnings in the sector declined by 6 percent for men, as they took lower-paying jobs, but stayed flat for women.
During 12 years of flat growth, women have stampeded out of the kitchen and into the workplace.
They welcomed me inside: in a small back room of the council flat, eight women were consoling Agnes's mother, Safira.
Rates were broadly flat among women, and among young men often thought to be particularly at risk suicide rates fell.Why are middle-aged men so susceptible?
But what we get, for all that, is rather flat portraiture: women giggling about crushes before finding real fulfillment in heterosexual romance and the grail of marriage.
As with senior leadership roles, board seats have remained flat for women — with female directors making up less than 17percentt of Fortune 500 board members this year.
