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While women are barred from Hindu temples in some other parts of India, women in the city of Pune are studying the priesthood at two schools and conducting ceremonies. Eighth in a series on the changing role of women in India.
Women’s rights activists are urging Mexico’s President Fox to support reform of labor laws to bar sex bias in the workplace. Also, in Pennsylvania, a judge lifted a court order and permitted a woman to have an abortion opposed by her companion.
A multi-ethnic delegation finds that rape and sexual violence against women are prevalent in the recent surges of unbridled violence between India’s Muslims and Hindus.