Send us a man to do your job so we can sack you, Taliban tell female officials
Source: The Guardian
Send us a man to do your job so we can sack you, Taliban tell female officials
As economy collapses, women from Afghanistan’s finance ministry say they have been asked to suggest male relatives to replace them
Zuhal Ahad
Mon 18 Jul 2022 08.00 BST
Last modified on Mon 18 Jul 2022 13.41 BST
The Taliban have asked women working at Afghanistan’s finance ministry to send a male relative to do their job a year after female public-sector workers were barred from government work and told to stay at home.
Women who worked in government positions were sent home from their jobs shortly after the Taliban took power in August 2021, and have been paid heavily reduced salaries to do nothing.
But several women told the Guardian they had received similar calls from Taliban officials requesting they recommend male relatives in their place, because the “workload in the office has increased and they need to hire a man instead of us”, according to one woman who did not wish her identity to be revealed.
Sima Bahous, executive director of UN Women, said in May: “Current restrictions on women’s employment have been estimated to result in an immediate economic loss of up to $1bn – or up to 5% of Afghanistan’s GDP.
“There is almost universal poverty in the country,” ...
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jul/18/send-us-a-man-to-do-your-job-so-we-can-sack-you-taliban-tell-female-officials
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