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HuffPo Live discussion on what the Afghan elections mean for women
I participated in a panel discussion on what the 2014 Afghan elections might mean for the women of Afghanistan. Did you know that 60% of the Afghan population turned out to vote in the last election, about the same as the last turnout for the US presidential election?
About 36% of those voters were women. Young women and grandmothers braved the Taliban's threats of violence and trekked to the polls, waiting proudly on long lines for a chance to voice their opinions.
Women ran for over 300 provincial council seats too. Two presidential candidates had women as their running mates. Women hold roughly 28% of parliament seats (about the same representation as Australia).
Reminder - just a decade ago women were shut away behind blackened windows and barred from the public sphere.
If that's not change...
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and the Afghan elections. To see the full discussion:
Huffington Post Live discussion from May 15, 2014
About 36% of those voters were women. Young women and grandmothers braved the Taliban's threats of violence and trekked to the polls, waiting proudly on long lines for a chance to voice their opinions.
Women ran for over 300 provincial council seats too. Two presidential candidates had women as their running mates. Women hold roughly 28% of parliament seats (about the same representation as Australia).
Reminder - just a decade ago women were shut away behind blackened windows and barred from the public sphere.
If that's not change...
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and the Afghan elections. To see the full discussion:
Huffington Post Live discussion from May 15, 2014
Video
My friends at William Morrow helped me put together a video giving some background on the bacha posh tradition and how I came to write this story.
http://youtu.be/PfGbDQ4Jw3U ...more
http://youtu.be/PfGbDQ4Jw3U ...more
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