Punctuation

An English professor wrote the the folowing words on the chalkboard and he asked his students to punctuate the sentence correctly.
A woman without her man is nothing

Most of the males in the class punctuated the sentence as follows:
A woman, without her man, is nothing.

All the females in the class punctuated the sentence this way:
A woman: without her, man is nothing.

NOTE TO FUTURE AUTHORS

~~~ PUNCTUATION IS EVERYTHING ~~~