A Day in the Life of Women Around the Globe

As killings increase, Baghdad residents have increasingly taken up firearms. Elham Bayroti was given a pistol as a government employee, but has taken it with her outside of work. (Photo: Max Becherer / Polaris)

A woman weeps for her relative who was shot to death along with four others in their family home Sunday night by gunmen, Monday April 3, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. Family mourned for victims of gunmen who charged into a Shiite home late Sunday, lined up a brother, two sisters, and an uncle against a wall and shot them dead, as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw urged Iraqi leaders to form a government as soon as possible to curb the bloodshed and rein in sectarian militias behind much of the country's violence. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraqi women weep as they look at the coffin carrying their relative who was part of a family which was shot to death by gunmen Sunday night in Baghdad, Iraq Monday April 3, 2006. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Palestinian women shout slogans as they hold pictures of their jailed sons during a demonstration, calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Nablus April 3, 2006. (REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini)

Indian women stand in line at a polling station in Sonapur village, about 40km (25 miles) from Guwahati, the capital of India's northeastern state of Assam April 3, 2006. Thousands of people lined up on Monday to vote in India's Assam state as troops protected polling booths from possible rebel attacks at the start of the biggest electorial test for the federal coalition. (REUTERS/Utpal Baruah)

A Ukrainian woman burns grass at a farm just outside the 30-km exclusion zone around the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant April 2, 2006. Ukraine is preparing to mark the 20th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster, when the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl plant exploded, spreading radioactivity across Europe and the Soviet Union. Picture taken April 2, 2006. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj)

Cambodian women plant rice seedlings in a paddy field south of Phnom Penh. More than 1,000 Cambodians digging up ancient rice paddies in the country's east in search for gold and other artifacts have been told to stop it and go home, officials said. (AFP/File/Rob Elliott)