Most of the women students are single.

Statistics indicate that most of the Bedouin women who turn to higher academic education are unmarried.

Why do only women have to show that we re married? I told my husband that if he d wear vermillion, I d do it too.

67 of the women having suffered abuse and contacted the Consultation Centres in Athens and Piraeus, are married.

The remarkable thing about these girls, and the sign of the kind of social revolution sweeping through the developing world is that these girls are not married.

There are female headed households without a link to males because women are unmarried, widowed, divorced or abandoned.

They must be unmarried or divorced, and must not be responsible for small children, in connection with the fact that they have to live in.

Mr. Karawa has three married sisters living in Fiji, but no family or friends there that could support his family if he was returned to Fiji.

Libyan men marrying non Libyan women is a big issue with important consequences. Today there was a march for Libyan mothers who are married to non Libyans demanding Libyan citizenship for their children.

Some of these women have been married for 30 years and that was the first day they uttered their husbands names, says Rohini Pawar, from Walhe Village, Maharashtra about breaking an age old custom where married women are never supposed to say their husband s names. Rohini says

According to a demographic and health survey of 26 countries, the majority of sexually active girls, aged 15 19, in developing countries are married, and these married adolescents tend to have higher rates of HIV infection than their peers .

I talked with over 200 women. I talked to older women, younger women, married women, lesbians, single women I talked to corporate professionals, college professors, actors, sex workers I talked to African American women, Asian American women, Native American women, Caucasian women, Jewish women.

For example, one out of five married women who wishes to space out or limit pregnancies has no access to family planning services (19 percent), and the abortion rate is estimated at one out of every 10 live births, according to the Madagascar National Institute of Statistics (INSAT) and the United Nations Fund for Population (UNFPA).