Taliban and Women

Taliban and Women

This is an excerpt from the paper... American women make about seventy percent of what American men do for comparable - or even the same - work, perform the majority of domestic labor and childrearing roles, and comprise only a very small fraction of government officials, leading scholars and artists, and heads of major companies, and are far more likely to be killed as the result of domestic violence than are their male partners. And yet, while this is certainly a picture of how a sexist society treats its less-powerful gender, the position of American women is in fact far better than the position of women in many other parts of the world. While the politics of American intervention in other societies are complex, one thing is clear about this nation's involvement in overthrowing the Taliban: When the U.S. did so it helped to topple one of the most repressive regimes in modern history in terms of its treatment of women.
As is the case in other countries in which the government is allied with one of the forms of Islam, the justification put forth by the Taliban for the restrictions against women were put forth in religious terms. These restrictions including requiring women to wear a chador (which covers the body from head to foot and hides the wearer's eyes behind a woven mesh) whenever women went into public and of wearing soft-soled shoes so that the sound of their footsteps would not arouse nearby men (http://www.bigby.u-net.com/arch/sexism/mw.html). Women who failed to comply with this dress code (even acc
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