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Written by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon - CNN
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
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Article Source: CNN
(CNN) -- Afghan women won the world's attention nine years ago following the routing of Taliban troops at the hands of U.S. and Afghan forces. Back then, a rush of dignitaries flew to Kabul to denounce the Taliban's brutal treatment of women, although the world had largely forgotten these same women during the previous seven years.
No school, no work, no leaving the house without a man -- even a boy would do. These are the laws Afghan women learned to live with, because they had to. Yet they also found a way to work around those rules.
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Written by Juliana S., 15 - LAYouth.com
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Friday, 05 March 2010 |
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Article Source: LA Youth
I have had a lot of sad things happen to me. My mom passed away when I was 7. I was abused by my grandmother. I didn’t have a chance to talk about how I felt so over time my anger built up inside me. I’d go off on people and curse at them. At the group home I’m at now I learned to express myself and get my feelings out. I don’t have as much anger. I don’t hold on to my past as much anymore.
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Written by NICHOLAS KRISTOF - International Herald Tribune
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Sunday, 28 February 2010 |
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Article Source: International Herald Tribune
Last September I posted about the increasingly widespread belief in the global development community that one way to help high school girls in poor countries stay in school is to help them manage menstruation. There’s anecdotal evidence that girls stay home during their periods (because of a lack of hygiene products and underwear, as well as embarrassment, cramps and taboos). Then they get further and further behind and eventually drop out. If that’s true, then interventions to address this would be a cost-effective way of keeping girls in school.
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Written by KATRIN BENNHOLD - International Herald Tribune
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Monday, 18 January 2010 |
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Article Source: International Herald Tribune
NEUÖTTING, GERMANY — Manuela Maier was branded a bad mother. A Rabenmutter, or raven mother, after the black bird that pushes chicks out of the nest. She was ostracized by other mothers, berated by neighbors and family, and screamed at in a local store.Her crime? Signing up her 9-year-old son when the local primary school first offered lunch and afternoon classes last autumn — and returning to work.
Across the developed world, a combination of the effects of birth control, social change, political progress and economic necessity has produced a tipping point: numerically, women now match or overtake men in the work force and in education.
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Written by Gail Collins - CNN
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 |
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Article Source: CNN
Editor's note: Journalist Gail Collins, the first woman to edit The New York Times editorial page, is the author of "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present." She wrote this piece, a letter to the next generation of women, exclusively for CNN.
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