DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: "CNN 20" today, a woman journalist in a man's world.</s>CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: In many of the countries I cover, particularly in the Middle East, women do not have the same rights as men. This, for me as a woman, is a matter of great distress, because, you know, you want to see women being treated and being given their due right. Things are getting better in many of the countries. For instance, in Iran, women have an enormous amount of rights now, in terms of being able to run for political office, being able to take many jobs. There are still many, many ways in which they are restricted, in terms of being equal in the eyes of the law.</s>AMANPOUR: For a long, long time people outside and inside Iran were saying: This elections wouldn't make any difference.</s>AMANPOUR: Dignitaries from around the world are beginning to come to Amman, to the capital of Jordan, for the funeral of King Hussein.</s>AMANPOUR: Communism, Catholicism, and simple curiosity at a historic crossroads in Cuba.</s>AMANPOUR: As a women myself, I've always been regarded as a journalist and not as a women, I think. And therefore, I've never come across a situation where I have been hampered because I'm a woman.</s>AMANPOUR: Well, he's on a ventilator, he is under sedation.</s>AMANPOUR: I often say, in fact, the reverse is true. I do believe that, in many instances, I have been treated better and more welcoming as a women than perhaps if I had been as a man. So I consider it an advantage myself.
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