Women in Afghanistan

According to a 2010 mortality survey by the Ministry of Public Health, 53 percent of women in the 25-49 age group were married by the age of 18; 12 percent of Afghan girls aged 15-19 became pregnant or gave birth; and 47 percent of deaths of women aged 20 to 24 were related to pregnancy. It found that one Afghan woman died every two hours because of pregnancy

https://www.unfpa.org/news/escaping-child-marriage-afghanistan

240 cases of honor killing recorded in Afghanistan

In 2014, women made up 16.1% of the labor force in Afghanistan.Because the nation has a struggling economy overwhelmed with massive unemployment, women often cannot find work where they receive sufficient pay.One area of the economy where women do play a significant role is in agriculture. Of the number of Afghans employed in the agriculture field or similar occupations, about 30 percent of them are women.In some areas in Afghanistan, women may spend as much time working on the land as men do, but still often earn three times less than men in wages. Nearly fifty percent of all Afghans in the medical profession are women.

https://asiafoundation.org/2018/12/05/2018-survey-of-afghan-people-shows-womens-rights-are-complicated/

https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-asia/afghanistan/fighting-women-s-rights-afghanistan

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2019/07/women-leading-efforts-female-rights-talks-taliban-190708113429836.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/09/the-taliban-took-years-of-my-life-the-afghan-women-living-in-the-shadow-of-war

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1PN0TZ

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