Salman Rushdie, Author Of “Satanic Verses”, Stabbed On Stage

Maybe I thought I would come away from these books with a new understanding of them and maybe I did.

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Here are 10 favorite places from across the globe that AO readers and staff alike are itching to visitYet you have to scan to number 58 to find the country listed in the category Economic Participation and Opportunity.the government said that a double last name would automatically be put in place for the child of any couple in a disagreement.

in an effort to preserve the rhyme as far as possible:Am I wrong to feel so revoltedBy the words of one once beloved?That I should have to ask a man.told the hospital that her right not to have her husbands name forced on her had been enshrined in law since the seventies.

citing the possible reaction of an ex) had an order of protection against the father of her twin daughters.

(The court also recently found in favor of a Spanish woman who alleged discrimination in being forced to give her child the fathers name ahead of her own.you need to prove legitimate interest—a designation so restrictive that it has been brought to a UN Committee on Gender Equality and condemned by the European Court of Human Rights.

France is tied for first place with twenty-five other countries with regard to womens educational achievement.The trouble is that even someone with no intention of taking her husbands name can have it imposed on her.

I couldnt be sure whether the fact that so many women were confiding such stories was a sign of their ubiquity.Im constantly reminded of how much France provides for women that the United States does not: a functional