Women in Afghanistan have been so affected by decades of economic and political instability. With the invasion of the Soviet Union and the subsequent rise of the Mujahideen, conditions worsened for the nation, but for women in particular who were coerced back into more traditional gender roles. This culture of full discrimination was worse by the rise of the Taliban. Women and girls once again being affected, they were subjected to continuos discrimination, marginalization, and severe restrictions in access to education, employment and health care. These restrictions were and continue to be, enacted through methods such as forced marriage of women and girls and the denial of basic education to young girls.
Some restrictions and mistreatment of women imposed by the Taliban:
1) Prohibition of female work outside the home, there are few who have permission to attend their workplace.
2) Prohibition of leaving home without the company of a man close to them, may be their brother, father or husband.
3) Banned from attending college and universities, their schools have become religious seminaries.
4) Public stoning for having extramarital sex.
5) Prohibition of talking or shaking hands with men other than their father, brother or husband.
6) Prohibition of their presence on radios or televisions.
7) Prohibition of access to public toilets.
8) Mandatory to wear a long veil, known as a burqa.
Women's rights in Afghanistan have been deeply divided and conflictive for more than a century.
Furthermore, the rights of women in Afghanistan have been deeply divided and conflictive for more than a century and this has caused various people of the other gender to dare to take right and possession of women in Afghanistan.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, Afghan women have been mobilizing to achieve more freedom and gender equality as practically absolutely nothing can be done without the permission of men, since women's rights to education and employment were brutally suspended .
Over the years, efforts to improve their situation have been interrupted by radical measures to push them back (mentioned above) but that has not been a reason for women to raise their voices and speak out before their people and achieve the rights that they any person and woman needs. Although everything is going slow, compared to other centuries, Afghan women are increasingly being heard and achieving what they have long wanted and hoped for.
Afghan women have been targeted for denouncing the harassment of the Taliban or simply for holding positions of authority.Since the start of 2021, civilian deaths have risen by nearly 50% with more women and children killed and injured in Afghanistan than in the first six months of any year since records began in 2009, the UN reported in July.The Afghan government has blamed most of the targeted killings on the Taliban, who deny that they carried out any crimes.If Islamist insurgents conquer the capital, many fear a disintegration of women's rights, if the Taliban continue to obscure freedoms won over the past 20 years, since US-led forces promoted a transition to democracy.
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