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To reach the U.N.’s recommended goal of 30 percent women in parliaments, “temporary special measures” like quotas are often recommended. Two of Central Asia’s more robust democracies are going tentatively down this path.
Women in the former Soviet state used to deliver in large, damp, often freezing maternity rooms without any family support. Now an ambitious health program has reduced the maternal mortality rate by 40 percent over the past six years.
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