January 27, 2006

Women Fight for Opportunity and Respect at Afghan Universities

By KATHERINE ZOEPF

In a tin-sided shack in a neighborhood here known as Karte Se, a dozen teenagers sit on wooden benches, their thick coats buttoned up against the chill. They are students in an English grammar class at a cram school.

Many students like these, teenagers in their last year or two of high school from families belonging to Afghanistan's tiny but ambitious middle class, attend similar after-school classes to help them prepare for the Concours, the grueling exam that all Afghan students must

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