According to McCormack's Gender Doesn't Matter, Jan states that "Judith was not a warrior, but she beheaded the Assyrian king's general (71). " According to McCormack's Gender Doesn't Matter, Jan states that "Deborah, prophetess and judge of Israel, guided her people during peace and war. When war and oppression broke out, she herself fought against the superior Canaanite army and led her male troops to victory (71). According to Gender Doesn't Matter by McCormack, Jan states that "Sierra, the enemy general, then fled the battlefield to Kedesh, where he was received by the wife of his ally Heber, Jael. After he fell asleep, Jael killed him with a tent stake. She was hailed as a hero by the Israelite forces pursuing her (71). All of these women had victory and success granted to them not because of their gender but because of their skills, their leadership and their ability to act, without waiting for approval from a man.