News for Today

Contributed by Karol Arámbula:

'Young women trade sex to support children in Dominican Republic' (Journal Star):

http://journalstar.com/lifestyles/misc/young-women-trade-sex-to-support-children-in-dominican-republic/article_494e957a-2977-53a8-ad36-434a9fb94fe0.html

'In Iraq, women fight to keep rights on campaign trail' (The National):

http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/in-iraq-women-fight-to-keep-rights-on-campaign-trail

'Women writers on the 'day my life changed' (Boston Globe):

http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2014/04/19/women-writers-day-life-changed/FiX5uyABsXJaaIaAfPgMSK/story.html

'Rouhani: Iran's women not second-class citizens' (Times of Israel):

http://www.timesofisrael.com/rouhani-irans-women-not-second-class-citizens/

'How Bollywoord is failing the women of India' (Forbes):

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ruchikatulshyan/2014/04/19/how-bollywood-is-failing-the-women-of-india/

'Hilarious memoirs by women' (USA Today):

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/04/20/bookish-hilarious-memoirs-by-women/7884667/