A poem that I wrote for the Sophia Network blog around this time last year... REHEARD The witnesses were inadmissible: Gossips; pedlars of idle tales; Adam's deceivers ever since the Fall; The first found weighed and wanting in the scales. It's true they'd been around, had followed close Upon the tear-stained heels that later bled; They'd even put up funds and played as hosts, As students, too, and filled each little head. But his appearing to them? — deeming they Should greet the new dawn first, and first be sent! And yet, this was — had always been — his way. The case submits it was no accident That, at the crux where all things re-began, Believing women brought good news to man. Carolyn Whitnall, 2016. Variously culturally stereotyped as hysterical, manipulative, ignorant and/or irrational, women at many times and in many places have faced a disproportionate struggle to be taken seriously . Female experts experience greater scrutiny of