Women In America Vs Afghanistan

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.

America was definitely different than what Amir and Baba were used to. Baba and Amir were at the top of the social status pyramid because of their abundant wealth. Their house was very large and they had servants to take care of them daily. When Baba and Amir moved to America, their eyes were opened to a see that people were even more wealthy than they were in Afghanistan. This makes it ironic that in America there are “homes that made Baba’s house in Wazir Akbar Khan look like a servant’s hut.” Baba’s home in Afghanistan was known as one of the best in Kabul, but when Baba and Amir moved to America they were no longer living like kings. The two men did not expect their once lavish home in Afghanistan to be able to be compared to what their

By including this hidden meaning behind the characters, Hosseini actually uses them as a way to give perspective as to just how oppressive the Mujahideen actually was, and how much of a shock it must have been to women. From Babi you can see how Afghanistan was at one time a good place for women

Women from America have equal rights but sometimes are treated unfairly so one can only imagine the struggle of how Afghan women are treated when the come to America. Although women from Afghanistan who come to America may not be treated fairly or equally all of the time, they are still better off in America than Afghanistan, even before the Taliban seized power. In Afghanistan, married women are often seen as property and can be treated as property by their husbands as well; this also means that they have no voice or freedom to be themselves. While this unfortunately happens in America, sometimes Afghan women who come to America have more freedom and have the ability to be independent and make their own choices. The noticeable absence of women

Khaled Hosseini speaks about that he wanted to show the relationship between two women that are fighting different battles yet are also fighting a battle with their volatile husband. The author wanted to include the lives of these women spirituals and physically in the Afghan society. One theme that ran through the play is an oppression women face in a country that is at war. The women don’t have a say in politics and can’t make political decisions. This also shows the power that man once again has over women.

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.

In 2010 a young Afghan women had her nose and ears cut off. Aesha Mohammadzai, first appeared on the cover of time magazine in 2010, shared her story on how her husband and in-laws cut off her nose and ears as punishment for trying to run away. Mohammadzai said: “Every day I was abused by my husband and his family. Mentally and physically; Then one day it became unbearable so I ran away." Three years later Mohammadzai began her reconstructive surgery. Aesha Mohammadzai now lives with a foster family, and is studying English in school. A true inspiration to Afghan women, Aesha Mohammadzai tells women who are being abused to stay strong and never lose hope (Phillip Caulfield.2013). This is just one of the many common punishments Afghan women receive. Mohammadzai is proof that still in today’s society women in Afghanistan are still suffering with extreme punishments. The life expectancy for a woman in Afghanistan is 44, one of the lowest in the world (Life as an Afghan Women.2013). Throughout the years, women have been forced to live in fear because of the way they have been treated. The consequences of punishments are not balanced with the actions that are performed, and women fight to hold their own. Afghan women have struggled with extreme, cruel and violent punishments. Women’s punishments are the result of the loss of their basic human rights.

There was once an Afghan woman who was repeatedly raped for 5 days by a local police officer. The police officer got his justice by being locked up, but the Afghan woman is now in hiding in fear of being punished by the other local policemen. This is just one sad story of what an Afghan woman has to go through on a daily basis. Stories like this are happening because of the results of the Soviet-Afghan War. Before the war, Afghanistan was a fairly free place. Women could go out on their own, wear what they wanted, and go to university. Now they are restricted from almost anything that involves the outside world. The Soviet-Afghan War, which happened in 1979, was a war in which the Soviet Union, who did not like what was happening in Afghanistan,

In the beginning of the book, during the late 50’s and 60’s, the richer women of Afghanistan are fairly equal to the men. The poorer/religious women are rarely in a position of power and must obey their husbands or male relatives. However they have the freedom to go where they like without a male escort. One of the characters, Mariam, is walking through a rich neighborhood, noticing the women with their makeup on and nothing on their heads. This is a very public society. These women can smoke and have office jobs. Mariam compares them with herself, who has no education, has had no power over her life, and must wear a burqa everytime she goes outside. Mariam is

Afghan women were isolated from men who were not a relative. Women could not venture off outdoors without being accompanied by a male family member. Working

In this novel the author, Hosseini, uses a powerful bond between the two main character to give a reader a deeper understanding about the way women are viewed and treated in Afghanistan. These two main characters are used to represent the different perspectives from which women in are viewed. The first character we meet is Mariam, a woman from an unloving and poor past. She portrays the old ideas of abuse and mistreatment towards women. Conversely, the other main character Laila, a young woman who came from a more modern and loving family, is used to represent progress towards the equal treatment and education of women. These two women obviously come from different backgrounds but are brought together through

The American Dream - accomplishing greatness with only the clothes on one’s back (also known as the ideal success story) - has been greatly influenced by the role women have played in American History. Women were key in the education of future generations in America and were responsible for instilling true Republican values in them; this process would later be known as Republican Motherhood. Throughout American History, men found women worthy of only one main task: child rearing. This view of women changed only minutely throughout the centuries and demonstrated the extremity of it, when African-Americans (ex-slaves) were given equal rights before white women. Though women faced various political, social and economic obstacles, they still managed to shape the culture and society around them by fighting for their long denied hard powers. They sought only to gain the right of franchise, be measured as equals to men in society and thus no longer be discriminated against. Women played important roles in abolitionist movements, prohibition movements and as suffragists, popular icons, politicians and social activists. By overcoming many obstacles, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Abigail Adams, Anne Hutchinson and Mary Wollstonecraft left their permanent mark on history by creating the modern myth known as the American Dream. They represented the moral authority of the republic and by struggling for centuries for equal rights, they managed to intertwine Republican Motherhood with the

In a male dominated society, the women of Afghanistan face many pressures and limits that are taught and ingrained in them at a very young age. Women and girls are seen as less than men and boys. They are viewed as being weak and unimportant. They are often pulled out of school and shunned to the house during their middle school years. Society sees no reason to educate girls when the whole point of girls is to serve as wives to their husbands and mothers to sons. They are taught that their entire worth depends on how happy they make their husband. As depicted by Jenny Norberg in The Underground Girls of Kabul, Afghanistan is a horrible place to be a woman. The pressure to birth sons, uphold a perfect reputation, and the economic disadvantages women face often force them to become men to have basic human respect and survival.

In the novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and the movie, The Kite Runner, the setting is similarly in Kabul, Afghanistan. A Thousand Splendid Suns centers on life in Kabul, being seen through the eyes of two Afghani women, Mariam and Laila, whose lives are thrown together through tragedy. In Afghanistan, the city in which people can experience change in a woman’s status the most is in Kabul. When communists rule Afghanistan, there is an attempt to more gender equality in education. However, when the Taliban came into power, women were imprisoned into their homes and their basic human rights were violated. When the Taliban falls and the union comes to power, women were given back their legal human rights, but it still remains a slow move to equality. The Kite Runner displays the issue of ethnic discrimination in Afghanistan, more in depth, the relationship between Pashtuns and Hazaras. Baba’s father sets an example for him of being kind to Hazara people, even though they are disgraced and mistreated in reality. He could have easily sent Ali to an orphanage after the death of his parents, but rather, chose to raise him in his household. Baba does the same with Hassan, although this is complicated by the fact that Hassan is actually his son. Ali refers to Baba as family, but

Ever since the Taliban took over they have been violating the rights of their people especially the women. If seen anywhere alone or uncovered the women get punished usually either getting beat or held captive. This is very common for the women in Afghanistan to experience. The Taliban uses the Islamic Koran book as their way of doing things. The Islamic Koran is a sacred book seen as almost like a bible. The Taliban interprets what they get out of this book into their way of life. However their interpretation of it is more of a punishing form for the women. The official name of Afghanistan is the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Afghanistan is known for its great quantity of natural resources such as coal, oil, gas, and extreme amount of