A major part of the war was to improve the position of women years after the US led invasion of Afghanistan , there was very little evidence to show the growth for women and girls. Girls can go to school, but it's not safe and there are severe shortages of teachers, staff, and equipment. The new constitution grants women equal rights, but with religion, culture, and dangerous security environment are obstacles. It makes women's participation in the economy, politics, and society hard for them.

 

 The regional and local warlords, were allies of America against the

taliban, and al-Qaeda, are not women’s rights leaders, and the invasion forces

are not interested in the warlords treatment of women. In most Afghanistan, the rule of

the warlords guns is more of a reality than the law. Women suffer conditions of violence, fear, and intimidation, and they are also at risk from sexual violence. With kabul city centre women do not leave the house, or travel without being with a male of their family. According to Human Rights Watch reports. In many parts of the world, parents are not sending their daughters to school, because it is unsafe for them to walk. The practice of exchanging girls and young women to settle problems to repay debts continues, as do high rates of early, and forced marriages.

 

Women received the right to vote in the 1920s; and as early as the 1960s, the Afghan constitution provided for equality for women. There was a mood of tolerance and acceptance as the country began moving toward democracy. Women were making important statement to national development. In 1977, women comprised over 15% of Afghanistan's highest legislative body. It is estimated that by the early 1990s, 70% of schoolteachers, 50% of government workers and university students, and 40% of doctors in Kabul were women. Afghan women had been active in humanitarian organizations until the Taliban made restrictions on their ability to work. These women provide a pool of talent and expertise that will be needed in the reconstruction of post-Taliban Afghanistan. Women are imprisoned in their homes, and are denied access to basic health care and education. Food sent to help starving people is stolen by their leaders. The religious monuments of other faiths are destroyed. Children are forbidden to fly kites, or sing songs... A girl of seven is beaten for wearing white shoes.

-- President George W. Bush, Remarks to the Warsaw Conference on Combating Terrorism, November 6, 2001

 

http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2010/12/04/un-7-4-million-afghans-are-living-with-hunger-and-fear-of-starvation.html

 

http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/6185.htm