The intransigence toward girls’ education has had material consequences in one of the world’s poorest countries.
International aid groups, which now provide assistance to roughly half of Afghanistan’s population, see the reversal on secondary education as an inflection point that has affected donors’ willingness to give. Western governments had long claimed women’s rights as a primary justification for their occupation of Afghanistan and pointed to advances for women as a rare bright spot in their 20-year experiment in nation-building.
That last point is perhaps true in the southern, more conservative parts of the country, such as Kandahar, where the Taliban first arose. “The Taliban don’t care about the constitution or women’s rights. If the situation continues, those who study law won’t be employed,” she said. That’s still true. After the Taliban takeover, Wafa rented a room in Bamian city for her daughters and enrolled them in private English courses, which cost 500 afghanis per month. Computer classes were too expensive, she said.
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