BY: Kendra Carpenter
In Kabul, Afghanistan, the female employees have all been instructed to stay at home. If the job can be done by a man, then they are advised not to work at this time. During this time, lives are still being threatened and bombs are still going off. Witnesses have said recently five individuals were killed due to a massive explosion. In that explosion, a child and three border police officers were killed. In my opinion, doing this to keep women from working is more than sickening. This all surrounds stopping women from working with scare tactics. in the past, not only could women and children not work, but they also couldn’t attend school, which leaves them to be complete vegetables in almost all aspects of life. Exceptions are being made when it comes to jobs that cannot be done by women at this time, but this may change as time goes on.
Currently, boys are allowed to attend universities and women are not. Last Friday, the Taliban completely shut down Women’s Affairs then renamed the organization. One dozen women came together outside of the ministry and protested to get their rights back. This protest lasted all of ten minutes. The women held up signs that said, “A society in which women are not active is (sic) dead society.” The protests came to a halt when it progressed into an altercation with one of the Taliban men, which caused the women’s group to get broken up by force. Research says that plenty of the women, up to at least 30, would hold conferences in their homes for private conversations. Most of the women involved in these meetings and conversations are planning and will attempt to escape when they can.
The Taliban have no issues making sure bomb after bomb keeps happening to ensure they will indeed take over. Before the terrorist activities started taking place, almost a third of the women were a part of the working community.
Source: https://apnews.com/article/business-afghanistan-kabul-taliban-e44d8521940021e4e7ab11d3898978b5