61. Revelation is immutable, so traditions excluding women cannot be changed, rabbis say. 62. Some, like Iran, excluded women because of Islamic practices, while others lacked top-caliber women athletes or devoted their limited sports budgets mostly to men. 63. The practice of excluding women has a long history in Japan. 64. The submarine service, which this year marked its centennial, is one of the last areas of the military to exclude women. 65. The United States also excludes women from ground combat positions. 66. They also ran the numbers excluding women who opted not to have an epidural while giving birth naturally. 67. Unlike many Arab countries where women are excluded from the political process, Iraqi women can vote. 68. Women still are excluded from infantry, armor and most other artillery positions. 69. The SGP, which excludes women, bases its manifesto broadly on the Bible. 70. These excluded women from interpretation of scripture, and then used it to justify new religious rules, such as head covering, she added. |