A senior Taliban figure says the group's leader should scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls Associated PressJan. 19, 2025 Thousands March in Washington Days Before Trump Takes Office Thousands of people from around the United States rallied in the nation’s capital for women’s reprodu...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Used to ask for alms on streets in Afghanistan's Kandahar city, Almasi, a 40-year-old widow, has got a job in a bakery established to create job opportunities for the needy, especially women like her. "Since (I) began working here and earn...
The Afghan Women’s Scholars Program at the University of New Haven Receives a Major Financial Boost[2.14.2025] Thanks to a significant donation from Scandinavian businessman Henrik Nielsen, 42 Afghan women will receive full-tuition scholarships to attend the University of New Haven. ...
Although military spending does provide jobs for some women, they tend to be low-paying, assembly-line positions in defense factories. Women provide cheap labor for defense contractors, who, in the US, rely primarily on the labor of Asian, Black, and Latina women. Women’s Responses to War...
Women may not go to most mosques. Many foreign women are very upset to find this out only upon arrival at a site. In fact, most Afghan women have never been in a mosque. Don't give the "thumbs up" nor the "okay" sign; both mean something sexual. Kids especially will try to get...
Despite their willingness to work, women in government jobs say they have been prevented by the Taliban from returning to work.
Middle Eastern studies Afghan university women graduates are not well-represented in the job market in Afghanistan LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO Prudence Moylan ShakibMohammad KazemHigher education has been one of the prominent sectors in Afghanistan for the past decade. There has been a steady increase ...
"So far, I've created new jobs for 40 seamstresses," she told Xinhua recently. Amini likes to see women given the freedom to work outside home, and is more than thankful to the mayor for supporting her and other women who want or need to work. If they do not work, their families ...
In the Zoom group therapy sessions I lead for Afghan women living under the Taliban's rule, I see the devastating impact.These women and girlsare confined to their homes, banned from school and workplaces, can’t travel or seek health care without a male chaperone, and can’t ...
U.N.: Exclusion of Afghan girls from high schools ‘shameful’ Foreign Affairs Segregated Classrooms, Single-Parent Picnics and Overwhelmed Maternity Wards Labor ‘Two steps forward, one step back’: Omicron threatens new economic slide for women ...