It is a movement that the typical Afghan, male and female, have rallied behind.
I must have missed something. Just what is this movement and why do the people support it? What was so bad in the previous culture that such a focused movement was required to overcome it?
Many American women would prefer to be home but our culture requires single unsupported women to go to work in order to have a life of any dignity. This would not be the case in Afghanistan.
Huh? Since when have women not had to be concerned about their financial support? Are you saying that in Afghanistan a woman can choose to spend her life embroidering and having tea parties with her girlfriends and someone will provide her with food, clothes, and shelter? Women, or their fathers on their behalf, have always had to find a way to fund their lives. Those who were not born with a silver spoon in their mouths usually married. Or they became nannies, servants, or teachers, providers of sexual services, or laborers. Or nuns. Or they received charity from relatives or others. What's different about Afghanistan? The only thing different here since the women's lib movement is that, when women are laborers, they can labor at interesting and well compensated jobs.
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