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Bottom of gender rankings, Iraqi women defy critics to work / V000_9XE8KY
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Each working morning, oil engineers Safa al-Saeedi and Dalal Abdelamir don a safety helmet and head into a gas complex for another day challenging conservative prejudices by being professional women in Iraq. "Society does not accept that a girl lives outside the family home," says 29-year-old Saeedi, who works in Iraq's southern oil and gas fields of Basra. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES