Afghan Women
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Submitted by OlivePoet on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Afghan Women
With all the talk of Afghanistan and the recent tragedies of September 11, 2001, it is hard to keep track of all the events going on around me. One thing that has always stuck in my mind, even prior to these attacks, were the roles of women around the world. Thought, this whole idea of the way women were treated in the middle east never really affected me until the past few months. It was not brought to my complete attention until the destruction of the World Trade Center, because frankly I live quite a sheltered life in modern day, free America. When the Taliban came into power in 1996 (Hurley 95), Afghan women were the ones most affected. They had been the majority of the country's workforce and were barred from employment outside the home and prohibited from attending secondary school, driving vehicles or appearing in public without male escorts and the all-covering burqa hindered them from partaking in immaterial everyday activities. The roles of women in all aspects of Afghanistan greatly shocked me because I am so use to the roles of women in modern day America. Their lives in Afghanistan can be easily summed up in the words of one Afghan woman: "living dead" (Goodwin 6). The simple idea of beholding sunlight is a luxury. Food is scarce, and burqas are even more so. Freedoms I have always enjoyed and never really thought much of such as speech and religion, was something women could not enjoy in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Though the roles of women in Afghanistan and here in the United States occured in the same time frame, it seems as if each country is years and even worlds apart.
Being a teenage girl in America, I have always been very interested in shopping, especially buying new clothes. This is not an option for women, let alone teenage girls, in Afghanistan. When outdoors, they are to covered in what is called a burqa veil, which can only be described as "shapeless bags" (Hurley 96). In a more formal definition, the burqa is a...
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