Women In Afghanistan
Afghan women face terrible issues that seem unimportant to the community, Their government encourage the inappropriate behavior brought upon them. They have no savior to take them from this neglect when the family are the ones to bring you into this imprisonment. According to a survey by Thompson Reuters Foundation, Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be born a woman. (No Country for Women). Afghanistan as a country has been through major trials and tribulations but the women always gets the most of the damage. And even a little more than a decade later after Taliban has fallen some of the same laws still apply and the women are still suffering. From 1996-2001 Afghanistan was under the rule of the Taliban, an islamic militant group. During the rule of the Taliban women were treated horrible, they were forced to cover themselves up from head to toe (even their eyes). Also the women who were teachers and nurses were forced to be beggars or even
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No matter the age of the girl ( even if she is not born yet) she can be married off to any person. To settle debts or just because you are not financially stable enough to support the child are some causes of child marriage, but in child marriage being that more than 50% of the girls in Afghan are at least engaged by the age of twelve to men far older than them. A child is expected to give birth as soon as possible yet this increases health problems for an child under of 14 and the baby five times more than older women during pregnancy or giving birth. The law is when a girl gets married she can no longer further her education so only 40 percent of the female population attend elementary and one out of twenty attend school beyond the sixth grade(Life As an Afghan Woman). Men like to see themselves as more superior than women, having a higher education makes them seem/feel powerful than
No matter the age of the girl ( even if she is not born yet) she can be married off to any person. To settle debts or just because you are not financially stable enough to support the child are some causes of child marriage, but in child marriage being that more than 50% of the girls in Afghan are at least engaged by the age of twelve to men far older than them. A child is expected to give birth as soon as possible yet this increases health problems for an child under of 14 and the baby five times more than older women during pregnancy or giving birth. The law is when a girl gets married she can no longer further her education so only 40 percent of the female population attend elementary and one out of twenty attend school beyond the sixth grade(Life As an Afghan Woman). Men like to see themselves as more superior than women, having a higher education makes them seem/feel powerful than