Women In The Kite Runner

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.

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

Education is what provides us the opportunity to learn new things and it helps to build our knowledge by expanding horizon. After Dawood Khan, the president of Afghanistan was assassinated by PDPA during 1970s and Afghanistan had become democratic and republic, education for girls was required. There were certain social reforms such as banning burqas and raising the minimum age for marriage. However, the invasions of Soviet, Mujahideen and Taliban forces revoked several women’s rights. Under the Taliban rule, women were imprisoned in their homes. Girls were forbidden from attending a school and were beaten if found alone in the street. Punishments were hard if their discriminatory laws were violated. (“Women in Afghanistan: The Back Story”). Even though women have gained some political rights now after the Taliban rule in 2001, but there are still many afghan

A Thousand Splendid Suns, a book written by Khaled Hosseini, gives us a unique and informative glimpse into life in Afghanistan in the early 1960’s to the 2000’s. In it we can see many different political and social issues ravaging the country, with the most evident being gender inequality. Though many diverse groups of people were being discriminated against at the time, most of the subordination fell onto women as they had more and more rights taken away from them when various ruling powers took control. The author relays this information to us and educates us as to what happened through compelling and thought-provoking literary devices such as symbolic characters and objects, and allusions. By using these

The Taliban started to control the country and their leadership directly impacted the women. Women who once had jobs outside of their home, using their skills to provide for their family were no longer allowed to work from anywhere outside of their home. Instead, they were forced to stay inside their house. The restriction that was put on the women made it harder on them to provide for their families and find ways to work. The restriction not only affected women who wanted to work but also women who wanted to further their education. It would be very difficult for a women to be educated just within the home, so not only were women limited in their work but also education. Whenever a woman wanted to leave the home, the rule was that a male

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.

Majority of the women were impacted by the Taliban’s ban of female employment, even the women working in the health care sector were not spared. The regime insisted that women be confined to home, to the Taliban women had two places in their husband home or grave. Often women were compared to material property of men, women existence dependent on men, especially when it came to financial security. Women whose husbands were killed or disabled were left to beg in the streets with their small children with them, even begging was considered unacceptable and punishable by the Taliban, because it was a form of work. Anahita’s sister was left in mercy of her relatives to survive, because she did not have a man to bring income and she was not allowed

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

Khaled Hosseini presents the struggle Afghan women go through every day by discussing honour, marriage and the place of women in society in Afghanistan.

Before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan many women had civil rights similar to the woman in America. (“Women in Afghanistan: the back story”) Horia Mosadiq, only a young girl when Russia invaded Afghanistan, spoke about her experiences as girl, “I remember my mother wearing miniskirts and taking us to the cinema. Those days were beautiful.” Afghan women were able to vote in 1919, and by the 1950s, women were finally equal to men with the removal of purdah, a social and religious practice of female seclusion. However, by the time the War in Afghanistan in the early 80s had started, the injustices against females soon grew in staggering numbers. (“Women in Afghanistan: the back story”) 'Afghan women were the ones who lost most from the war and militarization.' (Horia

Throughout the history of Afghanistan, women have played a significant role in trying to connect the divide within society. They work by connecting communities and individuals; thus working to change the narrative of peace building in a society where violence has long been considered a method of realizing interests. Afghan women have been fighting to turn the focus towards the fulfillment of peace and human rights. The inadequate support that these women receive and the distrust they experience, from fellow Afghans and the international community, has had an adversative impact on women’s inclusion in the peace process.

     A woman’s life in Afghanistan is one of the most shocking and devastating truths. It wasn’t until September 11th 2001 that the world awoke to the relevance of women’s issues to international peace and security. However, it’s been two years since and the lives of Afghan women have improved only slightly. Harassment, violence, illiteracy, poverty and extreme repression continue to characterize reality for many afghan women.

During the 1960s, Afghanistan used one of the most forward thinking countries when it came to women’s rights. Women were allowed to wear whatever they want, they could go out in public alone without the fear of being attacked, education was a right not a struggle but most importantly they were treated equally to men.Since the Taliban involved in 1994 and became the government in 1996 women have been treated worse the vermin. Now women are forced to cover themselves head to toe, woman are banned from going outside and when they do a man, their husband has to go with them are else they will be publicly shamed, now they have to fight for a right to an education and are considered half of a man.

Rula Ghani, Nadia Sidiqi, and the groups of civilians of Afghanistan have all given attributes such as hope, confidence, and comfort in their movements to do this. Although immoral and unjust, the Taliban’s oppression of women induced the furtherance of the push for the rights of women not only in Afghanistan, but all over the globe. revolutionizing the modern discord regarding equal rights for all people. Therefore, while astounding, the oppression of women by the Taliban was indirectly a huge leap towards ameliorating women’s