Effect of Gender Inequality on Economic Status

In the world today, women have a say in what they want to do and things that they desire to do. Back in the day, before the 1800’s, women had to be submissive to their male counterparts and do according to what was required of them. In the end, this led to the demeaning of the woman and the concept that women were inferior to men. Even though this concept and perception changed, there have been some countries and regions of the world that have not yet recognized the equality that women deserve. Such areas do not allow women to vote, attend school, have a say in the community, and the women are at the mercy of their husbands, fathers or male superiors (Hartmann, Susan M).

In Afghanistan, Women’s rights were very denied and completely dismissed. Women were treated horribly. They were beaten, abused verbally, and even killed. Under the rule of the Taliban, women were better off staying in the safety of their own homes.

Today in the post –Taliban era, women still struggle with their rights. Resolutions were produced and rights for women have advanced since September 11th but in order to move forward, much work needs to be done. Hundreds of years of repression for Afghan women will take a lot longer than a few years to actually revolutionize. There is violence towards women that are not practicing traditions customs and fear retaliations from the Taliban. Customs are difficult to change as well as government policies. (Bora Laskin Law). In Afghanistan, religious and cultural values, politics, and an uncertain acting government have played a major part in the struggle for women’s rights.

Gender inequality remains a major barrier to human development. In this PBS, they talked about Afghanistan women’s right. In Afghanistan, women and girls are discriminated against in health, education, political representation, and labor market. Women roles are given at birth, as one's biological sex, they are to be learned and taught amongst those surrounding one at an early age, and the society and culture one lives in. I think this is a serious problem around the world, not only in Afghanistan. We can see crimes against women consist of violence, femicide (murder of women), and rape (war rape) in countries such as Pakistan and the Muslim Middle East. I think it doesn’t happen in developing countries but also in the modern countries. If we compare between women and men salary in the same kind of jobs in America, men will get more salary than women even women might work harder and better. I think this gap needs to be fixed. However, this issue has been chronically for at least 100 years and it is hard to solve. I think if we want to get this culture changed, we need to start new cultivation to the new generation. The remedy would have to emanate from the cultural tradition of the citizenry; accordingly, the collaboration of local communities, institutions, national authorities and international bodies is essential to influencing change and promoting the value of women.

The Constitution that was created in Afghanistan during the 1920’s, stated equal rights for women and men. In fact, during the year of 1959, new policies created educational and career opportunities and voluntary removal of having to wear the burka. Women’s roles become similarly equivalent to male roles; they had the opportunity to acquire knowledge from universities, and were provided jobs in industrial, business, and entertainment settings. The atrocities that came about during the Mujaheddin and Taliban control were unheard of years prior, when women lived in peace and prosperity

Prior to the rise of the Taliban, life for women in Afghanistan was improving dramatically. In Laila’s father’s words, “Women have always had it hard in this country… But it’s true, it’s a good time to be a woman in Afghanistan” (Hosseini 121). Women were able to teach in universities and schools and even hold office in the government. However, once the Taliban came to power in 1996, women were stripped of their basic rights and practically ordered on house arrest.

The Taliban is an extremist Islamic group highly emphasizing a strong interpretation of sharia law that arose in the early 1990s after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Referencing the BBC article, a common belief holds that the Taliban first emerged in religious seminaries that preached a hard line of Sunni Islam. The Taliban’s promise to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the surrounding area was to restore peace and security using their interpretation of the sharia law once they were in power (“Who Are the Taliban?”). Along with the many new policies and regulations of society, there arose a new interpretation of the role of women in society. Women became very restricted and had to live in a way that was extremely submissive to men to the point where it was almost dehumanizing, as many would argue. Although the Taliban has been out of control in Afghanistan since December of 2001, remnants of their oppression towards women remain. In this paper, I will demonstrate the Taliban’s remaining effects in Afghan society regarding many aspects of everyday life, such as the workforce, education, healthcare, and human rights. To begin, I will give a brief overview of how Afghan women participated in society before the Taliban came to power. I will then provide information and examples that shed light on women’s life during Taliban rule. In the final section of this paper, I will describe how the lifestyle of women has changed as a result of the Taliban’s oppressive laws and

A patriarchal society dominated the early years in Afghanistan. This society is not also apparent in modern America. Women may not be treated as badly, but are still not treated equally. For example, women do not necessarily get paid the same as men even when they do the same job. In fact, America has never even had a woman president.

Many know of the horrendous events that took place on September 11th 2011, but what some don’t know are the immediate responses from the US after the occurrence of that event. In the essay “Rescuing women and children” Rosenberg presents US imperialism and the roles it plays in gender particularly in Afghanistan. I will be discussing how this imperialism affects gender in other countries and the differnces between “rescuing women and children” and cross-culture solidarity.

From the beginning of time, women all around the world have been fighting to escape oppression. Women everywhere are living under the control of men and are often looked over; it has been an ongoing issue for years. Much too often women are treated as lesser human beings just because of their gender. Women and men both have the same capability to do great things in the world; it is just a matter of making it known. Throughout the years, many women have found their voice, but many have not. More specifically, women in Middle Eastern countries have fought to have education, jobs, and even basic human rights. Today in the United States it is common for women to be as in control and educated as men, but women in the Middle East are still fighting for that right. The women from these countries fear for their lives every time they attend school. Oppressed women in the Middle East are denied access to education that they must seek due to the negative economic, political, and cultural expectations placed on them.

Women are constantly being put down as if they are not good enough; discrimination of women is sadly seen throughout the world in history. Women have and still are degraded as inferior to men, forced to think that it is the woman's ‘duty’ to tend the house and children while the men do the ‘important’ work. Within the 20th and early 21st century, Afghanistan’s female population has had to endure the harshest of these sexist restraints. The book A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is able to accurately describe the typical life of a female in modern Afghan society, causing the readers to feel as if they are suffering alongside the main characters, Mariam and Laila. A Thousand Splendid Suns is not just one of the most inspirational and

The history of Afghanistan reflects its patriarchal nature; mostly men and their actions are recorded in the history, which leaves women without a space. The women’s role in Afghanistan’s history is a work in progress; nevertheless women have played an influential and significant role. Women’s contribution is building the Afghan society have not been well document, but Afghani women ricked their life in defending their country from invaders, and educated the next generation of both men and women. The constitution of 1923 gave women equal rights; relatively speaking women had agency and autonomy. Afghan people had progressive attitude toward women and equality, but the Soviet invasion and emergence of the Taliban change the course of the history.

Since the beginning of time, women have had to fight rigorously for basic human rights. In the western stratosphere, those human rights were achieved in the early 20th century, but in a lot of eastern countries the battle for the women is just beginning, or worse hasn't even started. Women in Afghanistan have been subject to heinous circumstances, even though their religion, Islam "demanded that men and women be equal before God,"(Qazi). Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner offers a very insightful view of the governing politics of Afghanistan pre-Taliban regime and during the Taliban regime, and the differing situation of women in both those eras. Based on the book and outside research, it is evident that the situation of women in

Claim: Afghan women 's innovative and persistent demonstrations throughout history highlight that they are not merely victims of war, but rather that their contributions to society are a crucial aspect of maintaining peace in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is a country where the population largely consists of people under 24 years old, and about 400,000 people are entering the workforce every year. It is hard enough finding a job as a young college graduate, but it’s even more difficult for the women in Afghanistan. Women in Afghanistan who seek education or employment still face backlash from a patriarchal society.