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Yemeni Women

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April 24, 1998

NPR's Anne Garrels reports on women's right in Yemen. After the unification of the country in 1990, the country adopted a new constitution which feminists consider a model for the Muslim world. But even though they have more formal rights than many other women in Islamic countries, more women in Yemen live in poverty and without education than in neighboring countries.

 
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