In Afghanistan, sons are highly valued over daughters — to the point where some parents dress their girls as boys in a practice called 'bacha posh'
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CNN is committed to covering gender inequality wherever it occurs in the world. This story is part of As Equals, an ongoing series Sanjoor, Afghanistan — At first glance, 13-year-old Mangal Karimy could be any boy living in a small village in western Afghanistan, hauling firewood and feeding cattle on his father's farm.Silently he hurries between chores -- a slight figure in luminous white trainers, lugging jerry cans of water across barren fields.
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