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May312012
Using a Mobile Phone to Curb Domestic Violence

“In India, researchers are just beginning to study the effects that the explosive growth in the mobile phone market has had on women’s lives,” Nilanjana S. Roy writes in The International Herald Tribune’s Female Factor column.
Mobile phones can “break the pattern of marital isolation,” she writes, allowing illiterate women to become competitive entrepreneurs, and the phones can help provide better health care for pregnant women. Read more…
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