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Iraq's Female Fighters
While women's rights advocates fight to have gender equality entrenched in Iraq's new constitution, other Iraqi women are making monumental strides of their own, blazing new trails in once forbidden occupations. At the Kurdish Police Academy in northern Iraq, 21 women will graduate with university level education, a lieutenant's rank and earn more than double the average salary in that region. For these women, the socioeconomic advancement is worth the risk and, in some cases, the public disdain that accompanies their new role as police officers.
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