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Gender Inequality- Education for Women in Afghanistan

How does it affect women?

Lack of education leads to women being isolated and hidden.

  • Islamic extremists insist women and girls stay at home, and can only leave if they are fully covered and accompanied by a male relative. In the cities most women wear a burqa that completely covers them. The fact that girls live with their husband’s extended family often results in them being treated like servants or slaves, compounding their isolation.

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The Issue- Education is Power

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.

How is the Problem being addressed?

Few economic opportunities

  • A culture prohibiting women to appear in public combined with a widespread lack of education mean women enjoy few economic opportunities. In general, women are confined to housework. Education is the best strategy to liberate women from male domination.

Lack of Education

  • Schools for girls have been burned down, hundreds of teachers educating girls have been threatened or killed, and girls and have been physically harmed while attending or walking to or from school.
  • In 2008 alone, there were 283 violent attacks on schools, resulting in 92 dead and 169 injured.

Women’s legal standing is limited

  • According to Sharia law, a female’s testimony is worth ½ that of a man. In custody cases, children will usually be awarded to the father or grandfather. So divorce—even in extreme abuse cases—is less likely to be sought, because a woman must be prepared to lose her children.

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.

Consequence for not addressing the issue

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.

Progress from the Taliban

Since combating the Taliban, many bans on women preventing them from getting an education have been lifted.

  • Banished women from the work force

• 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

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