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WOMEN - WEDNESDAY, JUL 14
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LIBERIA: MEN TESTING NEW ROLE AS MIDWIVES
ZWEDRU, Liberia, Jul. 14, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Henry Teh gently slides down a blue hospital sheet to expose the bare belly of a pregnant woman. As he pokes around to feel the position of the fetus, the midwife-in-training knows he is breaking tradition and changing the face of obstetric care in Liberia.
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INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS: WOMEN JOIN FORCES FOR POLITICAL EQUALITY
PORT-LOUIS, Jul. 14, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - "Instead of moaning all the time, why don’t you create your own (political) party?" some men asked Brigitte Rabemanantsoa Rasamoelina, a female politician from Madagascar. She accepted the challenge and in February formed Ampela Mano Politika, a political party which started with only 22 female members and now has over 5,000 female members ... and 10 men.
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PARAGUAY: WOMEN MANAGE DAIRY FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY
ASUNCIÓN, Jul. 14, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - A year ago, Ramona Pereira was a prisoner of mind-numbing domestic drudgery in a rural village in Paraguay. Now she is the leader of a committee of women dairy producers in her community, and at 38 she feels like a new woman.
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