In the 1960s it was suggested that women lacked the ability to hold positions of responsibility and power due to their menstrual cycle. The eminent US endocrinologist Estelle Ramage responded “In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity is seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore” [5].