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Friday, November 14, 2008

A smart makeover for Iran’s women

World | By Borzou Daragahi | November 14, 2008
In her eyes, they are all daughters and sisters. Read more
 

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Women’s slayings to be investigated

World | September 2, 2008
Pakistan opened an investigation into the killings of five women who tried to choose their own husbands after a Baluchistan province lawmaker defended what he called “centuries-old traditions.” Read more
 

Friday, August 8, 2008

Down with sexism, sorta

National | August 8, 2008
It’s not exactly the language they preferred, but a group of women who had supported Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential bid is happy with a proposed Democratic Party platform plank that denounces sexism. Read more
 

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Bruises and a blind eye in Italy Tied up in a knot

World | By Tracy Wilkinson | July 15, 2008
A few miles from the Vatican, Najat Hadi kept house with her husband, his other wife and their assorted children, an unhappy home with a hateful woman 10 years her junior and a cruel spouse who left her with a jagged scar peeking from her collar. Read more
 

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Arab women stretch limits

World | By Jeffrey Fleishman | June 1, 2008
The censors didn’t quite know what to do with Lina Khoury’s play about sex, rape, menopause and a visit to the gynecologist, but Islamic hard-liners were pretty specific: One wanted to stone the 32-year-old writer; others accused her of being an Israeli agent planting immoral ideas in the Arab world. Read more
 

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Refusing to take men for an answer

World | By Héctor Tobar and María Antonieta Uribe | April 5, 2008
Many years ago, when she was still a tiny girl in braids, and not the professional she is today, Eufrosina Cruz heard the story of how her father married off her sister to a stranger at age 12: She wondered if a man might come to claim her too. Read more
 

Monday, March 10, 2008

Kosovo’s women await freedom

World | March 10, 2008
She purses her lips in a “tsk-tsk” when asked difficult questions. Read more
 

Sunday, March 2, 2008

It’s Obama versus the sisterhood

National | March 2, 2008
Darlene Ewing is a Democratic activist, longtime feminist and very frustrated Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter. Read more
 

Friday, January 18, 2008

U.N. questions Saudi rules for women

World | January 18, 2008
Saudi Arabia, appearing Thursday for the first time before a United Nations women’s rights panel, faced tough questions over restrictions on “virtually every aspect of a woman’s life” in the kingdom. Read more
 

Monday, January 14, 2008

Pursuing happiness behind the veil

World | January 14, 2008
Teresa Malof knew she wasn’t in Kentucky anymore when a cleric issued a fatwa against her secret Santa gift exchange. Read more
 

Monday, January 7, 2008

Boards take on a new look

Business | January 7, 2008
Heidi Marie Petersen’s knowledge of strategy and spreadsheets at a board meeting in Norway last year made a male colleague sit up and take note. Read more
 

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

A voice for rural women of China

World | January 2, 2008
Xie Lihua’s parents wanted a boy. Read more
 

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Iraqi policewomen are told to surrender their weapons

World | By Tina Susman | December 11, 2007
The Iraqi government has ordered all policewomen to hand in their guns for redistribution to men or face having their pay withheld, thwarting a U.S. initiative to bring women into the nation’s police force. Read more
 

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

World in Brief / SAUDI ARABIA - Rape victim’s case to be reviewed

World | November 28, 2007
A Saudi court will review the case of a gang rape victim sentenced to jail and flogging for violating the country’s strict sex segregation laws, the foreign minister said. Read more
 

Saturday, November 3, 2007

In Mexico, abortion is out from shadows - The stigma attached to it has begun to fade as large numbers of legal procedures have been done in the capital.

World | By Héctor Tobar | November 3, 2007
On the five-hour bus ride from Guadalajara to this capital city, Rocio Medeles cried over her misfortune. Read more
 

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Iraqis divided by treatment of women in constitution

World | By Tina Susman | October 9, 2007
It has been nearly 30 years since she got married, but Iraqi legislator Samira Musawi still bristles at what she considers the ultimate indignity: a law requiring witnesses to certify the rite. Read more
 

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Mastectomy not a disability, court says - South Korea’s army has to reinstate a pilot who was forced to retire.

World | October 6, 2007
seoul – A South Korean court on Friday ordered the military to reinstate one of its first female helicopter pilots, discharged after she had a double mastectomy to treat breast cancer. Read more
 

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

World in Brief / SAUDI ARABIA - Women hope to win right to drive

World | September 18, 2007
For the first time, a group of Saudi women have formed a committee to lobby for the right to drive, and they plan to petition King Abdullah. Read more
 

Female police and soldiers battle sexism

World | By Molly Hennessy-Fiske | September 18, 2007
A few days after one of Iraq’s first female soldiers returned from basic training, she heard that her commander was locked in a battle with insurgents on Baghdad’s volatile Haifa Street. Read more
 

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

The World - Tehran again hostile territory for fashion statements

World | By Borzou Daragahi and Ramin Mostaghim | July 25, 2007
The young woman dressed to dazzle. Read more
 
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