Female employment in Afghanistan dropped by a quarter after Taliban takeover in 2021, according to a new International Labour Organisation report
Restrictions on girls and women have severe implications for their education and labour market prospects, the ILO says.
Female employment in Afghanistan has dropped by a quarter after the Taliban took over the country, according to estimates from the International Labour Organisation , which said the fall was exacerbated by restrictions on women working and studying. The ILO said the 25 percent drop in female employment took place by the final quarter of 2022 from the second quarter of 2021, compared with a 7 percent drop for men. "Restrictions on girls and women have severe implications for their education and labour market prospects," said Ramin Behzad, the Senior Coordinator for Afghanistan at the ILO, in a statement accompanying its assessment for 2022 of Afghanistan.
Taliban authorities have barred most girls from high school, stopped women from attending universities and most female NGO workers from working.Following the Taliban takeover, foreign governments withdrew development aid and froze the country's central bank assets.Taliban officials have called on the international community to unfreeze its assets to ease the country's liquidity crisis and have said they are focused on encouraging trade and investment to create economic self-sufficiency.
"Some women moved into self-employed activities, such as farming...or repairing clothes, thereby contributing to household income and preventing female employment from falling by even more," the ILO's report said.
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