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Lack of education leads to women being isolated and hidden.
Only 40% of Afghan girls attend elementary school, and only one in 20 girls attend school beyond the sixth grade. There are approximately three times more boys attending school than girls.
Few economic opportunities
Lack of Education
Women’s legal standing is limited
As of 2008, there were 3,446 community–based schools in Afghanistan, and 1,393 more are planned for this year. In addition, UNICEF is helping to build 72 brand–new schools and 600 classrooms, while also working to remove entrenched cultural barriers to girls' education and train more female teachers. U.S. Fund for UNICEF partners—like the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International—have generously contributed to these and other education programs in Afghanistan.
At 16, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Noble Peace Prize.
If the lack of eduction to women in Afghanistan is not addressed then the oppression cycle will continue. Women will never be enabled to get better jobs thus make more money and be independent. They won't learn of the opportunities and resources that are available to support women empowerment.
"Over 2.2 million girls are now in school. We expect a 20 percent increase in primary school enrollment for girls by 2013, with help from UNICEF education programs."
-Fazlul Haque, UNICEF Chief of Education for Afghanistan.
Since combating the Taliban, many bans on women preventing them from getting an education have been lifted.
• Closed schools to girls and women and expelled women from universities
• Prohibited women from leaving their homes unless accompanied by a close male relative
• Ordered the publicly visible windows of women's houses painted black and forced women to wear the burqa
• Prohibited women and girls from being examined by male physicians while at the same time prohibited female doctors and nurses from working