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Impoverished girls in the Middle East are gaining more access to education.
Yemen announced it would rescind primary school fees for girls and the European Union said it would fund 200 new "girl friendly" schools for disadvantaged girls throughout Egypt, the United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks reported in two stories published May 7 and May 15.
Yemen’s fees for primary school have been low, but still prohibitive for over 1 million eligible girls.
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Casting doubt on a popular conception that women who play triple roles–earner, wife and mother–are overstressed and unsatisfied, researchers from University College London found that women who ‘triple-task’ tend to be in better health than women who do not perform all three tasks. The researchers followed 1,200 British women between the ages of 15 and 54 and studied longitudinal data compiled by the British government.
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