"Girls need new formula
Thursday, March 6, 2008
By KRISTEN STEVENS
When I was in Diyarbakir last year working on a story about women surviving with micro credit loans, ice dream vendor Nahiyet Kaya told me that her daughter is proud she can ask her for money now when she needs something.With a piece of chalk her daughter Leyla, 12, had covered the doors of the large wooden dresser – the family's only furniture – with hundreds of mathematical formulas from floor to ceiling. But Leyla told me she didn't know whether she would stay in school or not. Her mother, who wears a headscarf, cast her vibrant green eyes toward the floor. "
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