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Spain’s Easygoing Siesta Burdens Working Moms

By Jerome Socolovsky ● Arts & Culture ● January 23, 2006

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.

Animal Comment Triggers Equality Debate in Sweden

By Jerome Socolovsky ● Uncategorized ● August 19, 2005

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 Leader Appoints 8 Women to Cabinet

By Jerome Socolovsky ● Uncategorized ● May 9, 2004

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’s Domestic Violence Fatalities Rising

By Jerome Socolovsky ● Uncategorized ● October 31, 2003

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.

Religious Leader Who Recommended Wife-Beating Sued

By Jerome Socolovsky ● Uncategorized ● September 2, 2003

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.

Bosnian ‘Rape Camp’ Survivors Testify in The Hague

By Jerome Socolovsky ● Crime & Law ● July 19, 2000

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.

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