51.   But the Islamic Republic does not bar women from holding jobs and encourages them to enter professions.

52.   But the Taliban have imposed a strict version of Islamic law that bars women from working and interacting with men who are not relatives.

53.   But the Taliban also brought a strict brand of Islamic law to Afghanistan that bars women from working and girls from going to school.

54.   During Taliban rule, women were barred from working or going to school.

55.   During the five-year rule of the Taliban regime, women were barred from such activities.

56.   Earlier this year, Niz Aziz said the state was planning to bar women from working.

57.   Emancipation has been slow in a country where married women were long barred from competing.

58.   Gender should not bar women from making progress.

59.   He thinks they trade drugs and weapons, and worries about their reputation for barring women from working.

60.   Headlines in the Italian press noted that the ordination took place in the center of Roman Catholicism, which bars women from becoming priests.