A Day in the Life of Women Around the Globe

Mary Danielson, left, and her partner of 26 years, Kris Wertz, members of the gay-rights group OutFront Minnesota, station themselves outside a Senate hearing at the Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., Tuesday, April 4, 2006. Minnesota state Sen. Michele Bachmann presented her proposed constitutional amendment at the hearing, which would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. (AP Photo/Janet Hostetter)

A Palestinian woman holds her kids as they evacuate their house after an Israeli tank shell hit their house in northern Gaza Strip April 4, 2006. Israeli missiles hit a Palestinian security compound in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, and Israeli shells killed a Palestinian in the north of the territory. (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)

Iraqi women weep for two children who were killed when a roadside bomb destroyed their house Tuesday April 4, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. A roadside bomb exploded near a house in Baghdad, destroying the house in which two families were living, killing two children, aged nine and 12 years. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

A Kuwaiti woman casts her ballot for a single municipal council election at a polling station in Rourmaithiya, Kuwait April 4, 2006. Kuwaiti women cast votes for the first time in a by-election for a municipal council seat, less than a year after winning full political rights in the oil-rich Gulf state.(REUTERS/Stephanie McGehee)

Women of Bharwad community carry dung cakes in Ahmadabad, India, Tuesday, April 4, 2006. Dried cow dung is used as fuel for cooking in India. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

A young woman dressed as Marianne, symbol of the French Republic, reacts during a demonstration against the first job contract law, in Toulouse, southwestern France, Tuesday, April 4, 2006. Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through cities around France on Tuesday, hoping to make their biggest show of strength yet to demand the repeal of a job law that has divided the country. (AP Photo/Remy Gabalda)

Palestinian women sit on top of sacks of flour on a cart after receiving the monthly food supplies from the UN Relief and Works Agency, in Gaza City, Tuesday, April, 4, 2006. U.N. agencies have warned the Israeli Foreign Ministry that the Gaza Strip is on the verge of a humanitarian crisis, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported Tuesday. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)