Women's Roles In The Kite Runner

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

Afghan women are not respected and treated equal in the society because of the taliban law. Due to laws women have not just lost personal freedom but rights to earn education also. Women are primarily the targets to get beaten and tortured because of the control men and the taliban have over them. In The Kite Runner the rights of women is a major theme throughout the book shown by the taliban law towards women, the dating restrictions, and the way males have the feeling of superiority in the novel.

In society in America women are some of the most powerful leaders today, in places such as Afghanistan women have no power. This is controversial considering that women were at some point already provoked when people said that voting is not an option for women, this is not just about human rights, but about human rights for the women born without rights.

Women are said to have fewer opportunities and not as good opportunities as men may have. Women, also have to work twice as hard as men do to get a job that's “meant for men”. The fact that women have to work twice as hard as men gives women the advantage of learning new things and also how to really work for what you what. In this day and age, many wrongful men still believe they have power over females. Women are treated as lower class to men. We were told as we grew up to do what the men tell you if you want to keep them. That our job was to wash the dishes, clean the house, and make dinner. In some countries this is still how women are seen and how women should act and if they didn’t they would be punished.. This was how it was in the book “Kite Runner”. Women had almost no say in what they were allowed and not allowed to do. Through seemingly minor references and characterization, the author reveals a powerful theme portraying the realistic position of women in the Afghan culture. These examples provide the minor evidence that accrued through the novel.

Before the rise of the Taliban in the early 1990s, women in Afghanistan were mostly treated as equals and with respect. Though women were still expected to be

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

The role women have in Afghanistan is unjust and unreasonable. Due to the rules and regulations, also known as the Sharia laws, implemented by the Taliban, women are constantly fighting a battle to survive in their everyday life. They are denied simple freedom. For example, women are deprived of education, liberty, and freedom. Forget about being able to drive, women cannot even step out of their house without permission from their husbands, or a legal male guardian.

To begin with, life for women before the Taliban ruled Afghanistan was fairly normal. Before 1996 when the Taliban ruled, women held seats in parliament,

According to BBC News, The latest data shows that 36% of girls in Afghanistan are now enrolled in school, previously none were allowed to be educated, adult woman are also now creating opportunities for themselves in government and are now even employed in police and army positions (BBC New Asia). The UN After WWI setting standards involving Women's rights, with other political movements by woman to gain the suffrage, has motivated this small but significant improvement in Afghanistan.

Women Discrimination In our society, both today and in the past, women have been discriminated and looked down upon all around the world, especially in Afghanistan. Our world today shows that women discrimination is one of the most problematic topics in our society, as well as it being a huge issue in the past. In Afghanistan, ideologically, women have gone missing, not given medical aid in crucial times, as well as being killed from being subsequently beaten by men in their country, specifically by their husbands. Afghanistan-born novelist and physician, Khaled Hosseini, wrote “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” to depict Afghanistan as an abusive country to women.

     Afghanistan was a very different place before the Taliban came to power. Women had a different role in society. They enjoyed much more freedom and equality. They could go to colleges of their choice and pursue careers they wanted to have. In fact prior to the Taliban takeover of Kabul ( the capital of Afghanistan ), 60% of Kabul

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

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

In present day in Afghanistan, the rulers that were in control after the collapse of the Taliban regime have sought to improve the living conditions and rights of Afghan women. For instance, while they were barred from going to school under the Taliban, they were allowed to go to school once again, but because of their inability to get access to education under the Taliban, including those who did and did not go to school, this has affected their ability to learn. One of these inabilities is being able to read. According to a report by UNICEF, the organization has reported that the literacy rate among the women is still very low. The literacy rate was concluded to be approximately 22% and even if developments were made to continue the growth