A Day in the Life of Women Around the Globe (Wednesday)

Palestinian women at the beach in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, March. 22, 2006. Rafah beach was closed to Palestinians for more then four years, with no one able to move to the beach for swimming or fishing, until the Israeli withdrawl from Gaza last summer. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)



Dorcus Inzikuru of Uganda bites her gold medal that she won in the Women's 3,000 meters Steeplechase during the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday March 22, 2006. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)



Nicole Ohlde, right, of the United States leads the ball while Hungary's Reka Csernyi, left, tries to stop her during a World Cup preparation women's basketball match between Hungary's and USA's national teams in Gyor (120 km west of Budapest), Hungary on Wednesday, March 22, 2006. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)



Ecuadorean indigenous women look at soldiers that guard the Panamericana road in Guachala, north of Quito, Wednesday, March 22, 2006. Thousands of police and soldiers were deployed to clear blocked highways Wednesday after President Alfredo Palacio's government declared a state of emergency in four provinces to curb Indian protests against a proposed free-trade deal with Washington. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa R.)



A Filipino woman rallyist holds an anti-US slogan during a rally outside the courts in Olongapo city, northern Philippines on Wednesday March 22, 2006. The court rejected a petition to defer the arraignment of four U.S. Marines accused of rape while the alleged victim questions the legality of a bilateral agreement that prevents the Philippines from gaining custody of the accused. (AP Photo/Jun Dumaguing)



An indigenous Ecuadorean woman walks in her community of San Miguel del Prado, north of Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, March 22, 2006. Thousands of police and soldiers were deployed to clear blocked highways Wednesday after President Alfredo Palacio's government declared a state of emergency in four provinces to curb protests against a proposed free-trade deal with Washington. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa R.)



Palestinian women walk along the Israeli wall near the Qalandiya checkpoint outside the West Bank city of Ramallah March 22, 2006. (REUTERS/Mahfouz Abu Turk)