Excerpt: “Nearly four years after the Taliban takeover in August 2021, a new UN Women report reveals that Afghan women are falling significantly behind global standards for human development. The Afghanistan Gender Index, the most comprehensive assessment of women’s empowerment and gender equality since the Taliban took power, reveals that Afghanistan has the second-widest gender gap in the world, with a 76 per cent disparity between women’s and men’s outcomes in health, education, financial inclusion, and decision-making. The Index also shows that women, on average, are realizing just 17 per cent of their full potential to make choices and access opportunities, while on average, women worldwide achieve 60.7 per cent.”
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