Arts & Culture
Spain Tries to Deter Parent Kidnappers
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Spain passes a new law that makes parental kidnapping a crime. The offence is occurring more and more as Spanish society grows ethnically richer.
Crime & Law
Spain Harassment Trial Is Rare Victory for Women
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In Spain, an accountant accused her boss, the mayor, of sexual harassment and refused to back off, and was willing to endure a trial. The resulting uproar handed women’s rights activists a major victory. Also, calls to remove spermicide from condoms.
Spain
Spain’s Literacy Program Unleashes Deep Yearnings
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After teaching older women to read, a Spanish literacy program encourages the students to write about their lives. The results are sometimes sheer poetry. Also, update on Canadian gay-marriage ruling and this month’s “Our Story.”
Arts & Culture
Spain’s Employers Have No Room for Mothers-to-Be
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A proposal to tax all women to pay for costs related to maternity leaves was widely denounced, yet, overall, women employees in Spain are discriminated against because they might become pregnant and fired if they do.
Crime & Law
Spain Debates Whether to Print Wife Beaters’ Names
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As women worldwide are protesting domestic and other gender violence, Spain is swept up in a debate over a dramatic break from its fascist past when wife beating as “moderate reprimand” was legal.