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Slow to Yield, Brazil Passes Equal Rights for Its Women

Date: August 19, 2001
Author: Larry Rohter
QUOTE: ...the Brazilian Congress has approved a legal code that for the first time in the country's history makes women equal to men in the eyes of the law.

ABSTRACT: Only now, as we enter the 22nd century, are the legal traditions of Brazil beginning to leave behind their 19th-century practices, and enter a more modern, more gender-equible era.

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