Women in Afghanistan

By: kaylan cox

Women's role in Afghanistan

• Some afghans think its okay for women to help be apart of society outside of home others do not.

• The role of women is to stay home and do the house chores and raise the kids.

• It is sometimes argued that some women who work outside their house usually misuse their freedom and start to prostitute.

• It is said they cannot raise healthy kids because the work to much that they don’t have enough time to feed them the nutrients needed and the child becomes neglected and affected by it.

• Women are not educated at all only on house chores.

How children are affected by the women!• Children are neglected

after a while• The farther doesn’t take

care of the kids physically he only gives money

• If mom goes off to study and work outside home child will resent mother

• That child will always remember how his or her mom didn’t she any love

• That’s a reason why women are prohibited to stay in there homes and work

What are the restrictions of Afghanistan women?• women have been denied

their rights either by official government decree or by their own husbands , fathers ,and brothers.

• They weren't allowed the right to leave the house without a escort

• Women had lost the right to cover wear clothes that bear bodies from head to toe

• they lost the right to marry who they wanted to it was chosen for them

• Woman couldn’t wear heels men must not be able to hear a man while a woman walks

The right of women in Afghanistan

• Before the Taliban women had the right to vote 7 years before Switzerland.

• Women had the right to go to school

• Women had the right to work also

• They had a choice if they were to stay home or go out and work

• They have the right to choose who they want to marry

• The right to walk alone any where they want to freely

• Leave there husbands if they are being beaten or harassed

Women's rights before the Taliban• Weddings were alliances

between tribes women were pawned into marriage

• Education was forbidden for women

• Women had to be silent, veiled, and obedient to their husbands

• Women had to marry a person kin or the brother of their husband if they are widowed

• Forbidden to cut hair

Women's rights after Taliban

• had to wear there veil properly or they were stoned to death

• Couldn’t be in public without a male relative with them

• Windows be blackened so women cannot be seen inside homes from outside

• Women couldn’t see male doctor and very few women doctors were a lot to work

• Women couldn’t shake male shopkeepers hands

• Couldn’t appear on their balconies

• Couldn’t color fingernails • Non covered ankles were

beaten if shown

Afghan women have been impacted by our political changes by?• Women eventually begin to

dress like us and without head gear

• They start to learn our religion some of them

• They force there selves to learn our customs so they can escape the bad things in Afghanistan

• We sent people over to help with pregnancy because of many deaths after pregnancy

• We created more universities over there for them to go to school

CONCLUSION

Women in Afghanistan are strong women they endured a lot before and after Taliban they had a lot of restrictions and rights today for them is a little different Taliban is no longer active (good) but some women do not any longer follow these rules but some do that is there choice at the end of the day

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