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Education Behind the Veil: Women in Afghanistan (1994)

Education Behind the Veil: Women in Afghanistan

Women's Education des femmes, Fall 1994 - Vol. 11, No. 2

Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)

Authors: Sharifa Sharif

This article presents a glimpse of women's situation in Afghanistan with regard to their education. What you read here are selected stories from a group of educated women whom the author interviewed from 1986 to 1988. The situation in Afghanistan has drastically changed since then and women's education, and all aspects of their social and legal lives, has taken a reverse turn.

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