What is our role?
"We've never lived freely in Iraq, and now I think we never will," one woman says.
The scene is a beauty shop in Iraq, where women of different religions shared the same worry about the new Islamic government.
They've suffered through the bombing and the violence and the war, hoping things would be better.
There's promise:
Nearly a third of the newly elected legislators are women, which is unprecedented in the region. (In neighboring Saudi Arabia, for instance, women can't even vote.) And Iraq's politicians have agreed to a transitional law that encourages equal rights for women in the new Constitution. But the National Assembly's makeup was the result of a quota imposed by the former American administrator, L. Paul Bremer III.
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