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Spain’s traditional afternoon nap is key to the country’s reputation for easygoing charm. But women trying to combine career and family say it adds time pressure and the government just set a 9-to-5 schedule for its own employees.
Sweden was recently ranked the most gender-equal country in the world. But feminists there say there’s been a backlash. They’re forming a new political party to put women’s issues high on the agenda.
Spain’s new prime minister has made history by assigning half of his cabinet seats to women and backing legislation to fight domestic violence and legalize abortion.
Spain has adopted a wide range of measures aimed at protecting women from domestic violence. But with the number of fatalities threatening to break records this year, Spanish women’s groups say the legislation falls far short of what is needed.
Spanish women’s groups, concerned about violence against immigrant women, press charges against a Saudi-born imam who wrote a book that they charge condones violence against women.
In the first international trial focusing on rape as a war crime and a crime against humanity, 16 Bosnian Muslim women confronted their alleged rapists, speaking out about the systematic assaults for a war crimes tribunal–and for the history books.