Gender segregation on rise in Israel [View All]

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http://news.yahoo.com/gender-segregation-rise-israel-065743297.html


Posters depicting women have become rare in the streets of Israel's capital. In some areas women have been shunted onto separate sidewalks, and buses and health clinics have been gender-segregated. The military has considered reassigning some female combat soldiers because religious men don't want to serve with them.

This is the new reality in parts of 21st-century Israel, where ultra-Orthodox rabbis are trying to contain the encroachment of secular values on their cloistered society through a fierce backlash against the mixing of the sexes in public.

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Reality is not so shiny. The World Economic Forum recently released an unfavorable image of women's earning power in Israel, and in 2009, the last year for which data are available, Israeli women earned two-thirds what men did.

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A private radio station went so far as to ban broadcast of songs by female vocalists and interviews with women.

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its even happening in their military

it sounds like they are turning into a country like Saudi Arabia