Women's Freedom Comes Slowly to a Sleepy Oasis
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For centuries they have been forbidden to work outside the home, but a  sensitive developer has helped create careers for Siwan women based on  traditional craft
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Afghan women find economic freedom, dietary benefits in vegetable crops.
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After a stroke, the brain tries to reorganize itself.  However, sometimes this process goes awry, leaving one woman to feel sounds on her skin.
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ROME, Jul 18 (IPS) - The women's movement over the last decade has  revealed how legislative guarantees and policy reforms do not  necessarily result in opening institutional spaces, and that  participation does not necessarily translate into influence.
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NEW YORK  - Symptoms of anxiety may speed  the progression of certain physical disabilities in older  women, new research suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Women who feel chronically stressed may have a lower risk of developing uterine cancer than their less harried peers, researchers have found.
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Women who feel chronically  stressed may have a lower risk of developing uterine cancer  than their less harried peers, researchers have found.
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A new study indicates that women in Nevada have come a long way, but not far enough and not as far as women in other states. The report from the Washington, DC-based Institute for Women&#39;s Policy Research.
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ATHENS, Greece - This country has long been seen as a patriarchal society. But the critical role played by two women in the success of the Olympic Games shows how much that society is changing.
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Life has improved for American women over the last 40 years, but big inequities persist, and they vary substantially by state, according to an assessment released Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - Chronic genital pain may be less common among women than studies have suggested, but the condition has a large impact on these women's quality of life, new research suggests.
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Starvation and loss of a period should alarm women in sports.
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A recent murder indicates a backlash by some against women as their rights and opportunities increase.
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Here's hoping you won't have to choose between health and comfort.
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A generation of mothers has begun a consciousness-raising that is almost old-fashioned except for the technology involved.
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Afghan women in New York have had to strike a balance growing up in a comparatively freewheeling society with parents who have held tight to their Afghan conventions.
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QANDIL MOUNTAIN RANGE, Iraq -- Sunrise came to the women's camp in shafts of white light through woven roofs, but Aristan Manzur slept past 10. She had a fever again, and fluid blocked the air in her lungs.