What is the reality for women and girls on the ground in Afghanistan? What do Afghan women stand to lose? How are feminists fighting back?
Why has there been so much attention on the transition and the status of women and girls in Afghanistan? I imagine that from some corners of the world where an education is easily accessible, in fact, expected for children, both boys and girls, that this is perhaps hard to grasp.
In 1996, the Taliban swept Kabul, first meeting with NGOs put up his list. No women going to school, no women working outside the home. Women would have a chaperon when they went out, must wear a burka. That was 1996. Meet those young women. Meet those girls. They are the same as the young women in your family and mine. They have been pushing for themselves to go to school, to achieve their potential, to contribute to their families, and with lots of challenges, have made huge progress in a country that is more urbanized, more connected, and more educated by far than it was two decades ago.
If you and I, Michele, were in this position, we would want people who are listening today to say, what can I do. How do I support? How do I help? And I think that is our role right now.: The reach of education and transformation, business ownership, and so forth—this was not contained to the elites. Because some might say: Well look, this was really just all about the elites. It’s the elites that were able to get education for their daughters. The elites who were able to ascend into parliament.
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