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.
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.”
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.
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.
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