A Day in the Life of Women Around the Globe

A Thai woman collects anti-government placards as protesters prepare to leave from outside the Government House in Bangkok April 5, 2006. Digesting his stunning promise to quit, opponents of Thaksin tried to work out on Wednesday how best to ensure the exit of a leader they think is down but not out. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif)

A woman weeps after her child was injured in a roadside bomb explosion Wednesday April 5, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. A roadside bomb exploded, missing a passing police patrol, but injuring a child in the Mansour neighborhood this morning. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

A woman paints over the Russian word for 'Freedom' during a protest against censorship in Moscow April 5, 2006. The protest, staged by the movement Democratic Alternative, marked the launch of a project monitoring censorship in Russian mass media, the organiser said in a handout. (REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin)

Indian women grieve for their loved ones in the Yamuna Pushta slum cluster in East Delhi April 5, 2006. Six people were charred to death, several others injured, some of them seriously, and thousands rendered homeless in a devastating blaze in a congested slum cluster along the river Yamuna in East Delhi. (REUTERS/Desmond Boylan)

Palestinian women's affairs minister, Dr. Mariam Saleh, left, and other ministers of Hamas attend the first Cabinet meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah Wednesday April 5, 2006. The Palestinian Authority's coffers are empty and the new government is struggling to find money to pay tens of thousands of its employees, new Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told his Hamas-led Cabinet. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

A woman pretending to fire a mock weapon joins supporters of former deputy president Jacob Zuma in protest outside the High Court in Johannesburg, Wednesday, April 5, 2006. Zuma told the court that he took a shower to reduce the risk of infection after unprotected sex with an HIV-positive woman. Zuma, is accused of raping a 31-year-old family friend at his home last year. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)