Women in the World
March 2006
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March Article Abstracts
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Title: Feminists and Fundamentalists
Author: Kavita Ramdas
"Reassertions of an idealized past and a restored 'women's place' are occurring, from Kabul to Cambridge, at a time when the international community has concurred that women's rights are a global good."
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Title: Is Globalization Our Friend? Women's Allies in the Developing World
Author: Nandini Deo
"Reforms most closely tied to the globalization of economies, considered separately from domestic neoliberal policies, clearly benefit the most vulnerable women in developing countries."
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Title: Does Lower Fertility Threaten Feminism?
Author: Leonard Schoppa
"The ability to opt out of-or at least to postpone well into their 30s-the challenge of working while still having children means few young women today are motivated to demand changes in social policy or even to demand that men do more housework."
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Title: Digital Scheherazades in the Arab World
Author: Fatema Mernissi
The Arab Gulf's previously all-male ruling elite is investing in female brains as the winning card for information-fueled power.
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Title: Educating Girls, Unlocking Development
Author: Ruth Levine
"Compelling evidence, accumulated over the past 20 years . . . , has led to an almost universal recognition of the importance of focusing on girls' education as part of broader development policy."
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Title: Poland Provoked: How Women Artists En-Gender Democracy
Author: Elzbieta Matynia
"It is women artists who, by entering into an open debate with central elements of the Polish cultural tradition, pose the main questions concerning the nature of democratic citizenship, toleration, and pluralism."
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Title: From Victims to Saviors? Women, Power, and Corruption
Author: Hung-En Sung
"Increased female participation in public life is a good and just end, but it does not in itself offer an effective means to achieve clean government."
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in January 2006, country by country, day by day.
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Title: Women in Parliaments
A map of women in parliaments
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