Women Fight to Maintain Their Role in the Building of a New Egypt.

CAIRO -- When the prime minister of Egypt stepped down on Thursday, Shereen Diaa, 32, was cooking lunch for her two young sons in a suburb on Cairo's outskirts. A veiled woman who molds her life around her children, Ms. Diaa had promised herself she would stop attending political protests and focus on her boys, ages 6 and 8. But when she saw on Facebook that the new prime minister himself would address the protesters the next day, in an unprecedented act, she could not resist. ''I will leave you only two hours,'' she said she told the children, dropping them off with her mother and then heading downtown to Tahrir Square. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]