Due to cultural pressures to stay at home to raise their family as well as a lack of educational options in the Israeli-annexed Palestinian sector of East Jerusalem, more than three-quarters of Palestinian women there are unemployed. Hebrew is not a language that many Palestinian women can use professionally. They are now being turned to beekeepers through a new scheme, which includes hives on their rooftops. The women said they are developing new abilities and becoming more independent. From East Jerusalem,with cameraperson Ricki Rosen, Linda Gradstein reports
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