C input problem

[guyfromfl]

I cannot figure out for the life of me why the program skips right over the gender input.  All vars are declared appropriately, and I get no warnings.  I have the memory allocator ('&') and scanf is spelled correctly.  Everything else works perfectly

 

for what its worth im using gcc with only stdio.h

 

PLEASE HELP! This is for a school project due tomorrow!

 

printf("Last Name: ");
gets(lName);
printf("First Name: ");
gets(fName);
printf("Initial: ");
scanf("%c", &mInit);
printf("Gender (M or F): ");
scanf("%c", &gender);
printf("Birthday (MM-DD-YYYY): ");
scanf("%d-%d-%d", &birthMonth, &birthDay, &birthYear);