March 28, 2010
Women and Higher Education Make Steady Progress in Afghanistan
Mikhail Galustov for The Chronicle
Zaitoon Bahram (standing), an English professor at Kabul U., with her students: "In most Afghani provinces, mullahs do not allow women to study. That is one of the reasons why most of Afghanistan remains illiterate and unemployed."
Kabul, Afghanistan
As spring sunshine pours over the campus of Kabul University, three young women sit under an oak tree preparing for their Farsi exam.
Agha Crul Hosaimi, Rana Mohammadi, and Jahantab Jafaree talk cheerfully. All three are from remote provinces of Afghanistan, where women rarely imagine themselves in professional careers.
"I was one of the very few girls in my town allowed to seek higher education," says Ms. Hosaimi, who, like the others, covers her head with a light scarf. "I
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