71.   It has imposed a strict version of Islam, barring most women from work and girls from school, banning music and directing men to grow beards.

72.   Kuwait is the only Gulf Arab state that holds elections, and women are barred from running for office.

73.   Kuwait is the only Gulf Arab state that holds elections, but women are barred from running for office.

74.   Listening to music and watching television were punishable by prison, and women were barred from education and the workplace.

75.   Most women are barred from work and most girls from school, music is banned, men are required to wear beards and public mutilation of thieves is common.

76.   Of course, women are barred from the monkhood in Thailand.

77.   Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi plans to review a law barring women from ascending the millennia-old Chrysanthemum Throne, officials said Wednesday.

78.   Slovenians voted overwhelmingly in a referendum Sunday to bar single women from getting pregnant through in-vitro fertilization, early results showed.

79.   The army reiterated Thursday that soldiers did not bar the woman from passing the checkpoint.

80.   Taliban leaders have barred most women from work and girls from school, banned music and ordered all men to wear beards.