Where Indian women lead, a better life follows
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KANAIPUR, India  - Every morning 10-year-old Indian villager Nipa Haldar crosses a canal in a small boat and trudges along a mud road for 20 minutes to reach school, pursuing her dream of becoming a nurse.
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When it comes to the advancement of women in the workplace, progress is almost never sudden. But often it is steady.
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The pace of change in India is supercharged because the country is catching up to, and in some cases leapfrogging, developments that took decades to play out elsewhere.
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VARANASI, India -- Deep in a labyrinth of stucco buildings, in a dark, cavelike warehouse, Mohamed Javen, 18, switched on a light bulb, sat before his rickety loom and began working on what was once the prize possession of every Indian bride: the hand-woven silk sari.
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For decades, India focused on its domestic economy and grew more slowly. But all that is starting to change.
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Afghan women find economic freedom, dietary benefits in vegetable crops.
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Recent conferences highlight growing efforts to include women in the struggle to end brutal conflicts.
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By S. SRINIVASAN    BITHOOR, India  -- For 12-year-old Anju Sharma, hope for a better life arrives in her poor farming village three days a week on a bicycle rickshaw that carries a computer with a high-speed, wireless Internet connection...
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India elected its first female president on Saturday, official results showed, in what supporters called a boost for the rights of millions of downtrodden women, despite a bitter campaign marked by scandal.
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A recent murder indicates a backlash by some against women as their rights and opportunities increase.
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MUMBAI -- Lured by the booming Indian economy and fed up with living as outsiders in a foreign society, many Indian and other South Asian immigrants in the United States are returning to their homeland -- and bringing with them cutting-edge American skills.
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KOCHI, India -- Down a narrow, stone-paved road in a quarter known here as "Jew Town," a woman with salt-and-pepper hair was sewing glittery beads onto the rim of a Jewish prayer cap. It was just after 3 p.m., and Sarah Cohen, wearing a housedress and flip-flops, sat in the sunny doorway of her...
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In a tradition-bound nation, women are emerging as an economic and political force unheard of in the rest of the Arab world.
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SRINAGAR, India -- Jana Begum squatted on the floor of her small kitchen with a friend, confiding to her how her life felt like a kind of purgatory, year after year spent waiting for a husband who had vanished shortly after his arrest by Indian security agents five years ago. To this day, Begum...
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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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UTTARKUCHI, India  - With a traditional woven cloth covering her hair, elaborate jewelry and a red mark on her forehead signifying her married status, Dimbeswari Bhattarai looks like any other woman in this corner of isolated northeast India.
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Life has improved for US women during the past 40 years, but big inequities persist, and they vary substantially by state, according to an assessment released Tuesday.