Roundup: Backlash over India’s rape test

Also: A mother robs a bank before picking up her kids up from school

By Tracy Clark-Flory

Afghan families dress girls as boys out of “economic need, social pressure to have sons, and in some cases, a superstition that doing so can lead to the birth of a real boy.”
A woman allegedly robs a bank in Grants Pass, Ore., but makes sure to pick up her kids from school on the way home. She’s a thief, not a bad mom.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid refers to Kirsten Gillibrand as “the hottest” Senate member.
India is thankfully experiencing blowback from that Human Rights Watch report about rape victims being subjected to the “finger test.”
Bill Clinton says changing the view of women as “part human and part property” is key in the fight against global poverty.
The 28-year-old woman who falsely claimed that a black woman threw acid in her face is charged with theft.
Female politicians just might take over the Swedish Cabinet.
Jill Johnston, leader of the lesbian separatist movement, dies at the age of 81.