Women's Rights In Afghanistan

Afghanistan gave women the right to vote in 1919, a year earlier then in the U.S. Moreover, in 1923, Afghanistan granted women equality with “the country's first constitution in 1923 guaranteed equal rights for both men and women” (Source I). This seems to paint a different Afghanistan then we are used to, an Afghanistan were women are cherished and respected, a nation more democrat then the U.S.A. Afghanistan used to be an idyllic place to live and raise a family. No strict dress codes were enforced, and moms took their children to cinemas. (Source I). Education was promoted, and boys and girls were encouraged to obtain a higher degree. In the mid-1900s Afghanistan was a country that granted each citizen great opportunities for a better life, and people did not escape the nation as refugees. The history of Afghanistan calls for equality and freedom and Afghans continue to believe in a life like this. “More than 90% of both women and men respondents (in Afghanistan) agreed that women should have equal access to education” and a fair chance in the work force (Source L). Afghans do not believe that teachings of Islam limit women or their opportunities, instead “strong authority within …show more content…
Today’s Afghan women is pictured as an anonymous female covered in a burqa, with no identity or name. Afghanistan is continuously destroyed with “20 years of war, extreme poverty, periodic drought, and the lack of infrastructure and economic development” (Source L). Today Taliban encompasses all of Afghanistan and controls every cultural and legal law. Under Taliban’s control Afghans “remain the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees `largest single caseload of refugees” (Source L). Moreover, the nation’s residents live in poverty and fear. Every day they know may be last due to constant destruction from the Taliban. Afghanistan remains only a shadow of its former