Businesswomen in Afghanistan are adamant that there will be no going back to the days of repression under the Taliban, and the progress women have made over the past 18 years will not be reversed. More here: by OroojZuhra
KABUL - Businesswomen in Afghanistan are adamant that there will be no going back to the days of repression under the Taliban, and the progress women have made over the past 18 years will not be reversed.
But the women who have blazed a trial in business since the Taliban were ousted in 2001 say they have come too far to be robbed of their achievements. “It was a time when we all thought of studying and learning, and education was the most important thing for us, but our lives changed,” she said. The international aid effort that arrived with foreign forces put girls’ education and the empowering of women at its core but there are fears a final withdrawal of U.S. troops, the winding down of international engagement and the re-emergence of the Taliban in politics will see the progress snuffed out.
Entrepreneur Narges Aziz Shahi, 29, said there was a chance the Taliban would not restrict women in business, but she would fight it if they tried.
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