p> During the prolonged war with Russia, women became 40 percent of Afghanistan's doctors, 60 percent of all university faculty, and 50 percent of government workers. The Taliban appear to have equated women with communism and educated or professional women with social and religious corruption (Mulrine 33). Women in Afghanistan endured numerous deprivations under the Taliban, among which the denial of the right to an education or to work to support a family were certainly primary. As Mulrine (33) notes, along with these rules, women were invariably stripped of any political voice or any opportunity to provide input into the go
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