81.   The agreement followed weeks of increased pressure on the Philharmonic, the final world-class symphony orchestra to bar women.

82.   The Catholic Church has launched legal proceedings in Australia seeking to bar single women and lesbians from accessing IVF programs, saying children need both a mother and father.

83.   The church still bars women from becoming bishops, and allows traditionalist parishes to refuse women priests.

84.   The Muslim woman is barred from wearing a head covering to work.

85.   The programs were introduced by Mariam Shekeba, whose broadcast career had been interrupted for five years because the Taliban barred women from showing their faces in public.

86.   The Taliban follows a strict version of Islam that bars women from work and education, bans arts and music and forces men to wear beards.

87.   The Taliban government, enforcing a strict version of Islam, has barred most women from working in the two-thirds of Afghanistan it controls.

88.   The Taliban espouse a harsh brand of Islamic law that bars women from working and girls from attending school beyond the age of eight.

89.   The Taliban has imposed a strict version of Islam, barring women from work and school and forcing men to grow beards and pray.

90.   The Taliban adhere to a strict version of Islam that bars women from work and education, forces men to wear beards and outlaws all light entertainment.