To take "the dream from so many girls," she said, would be like "banning women in all sports of the Olympics."

The Taliban have banned women from the school as both students and teachers.

On the other hand he declared that his party had no intention to impose the wearing of the veil or to ban women from driving.

He actually joined a club that his three predecessors refused to go to because it bans women.

A provision banning women from political associations was deleted in 1922.

A decree in Italy bans women from holding public office.

In 2007, Kuwait's parliament passed a controversial law banning women from working after 8 pm.

In April 2001, the parliament banned Kuwaiti women from playing soccer.

They became necessary, however, only after the Vatican banned women from church choirs in the mid-16th century.

Thankfully the Taliban, who banned women from taking part in all sports, are long gone.