Women in universities are restricted in what they can wear, and restricted from teaching men or attending classes with them.
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For female scholars, life under the Taliban means that most must wear garments that cover their head and body, and are restricted from teaching men. And female students cannot attend classes with men and are restricted from being taught by them. “The Taliban is making the situation worse and worse for women,” says a female university student and medical researcher in Kabul, who requested anonymity.has spoken to more than a dozen scholars, inside and outside Afghanistan.
Researchers have to spend much of their time teaching; many also say that their salaries have been cut by more than one-third and are not always paid on time. Research funds previously disbursed through international collaborations remain frozen, and the exodus of academics has placed an additional burden on those left behind.
Women and people belonging to minority ethnic groups, such as Hazara and Tajik people, say they have been persecuted. Some have said they were fired for no valid reason, and feel unsafe working in the current environment. Many have chosen to leave. Even under the previous government, they faced discrimination, but “with the Taliban’s arrival, that discrimination is increased”, says the former professor in Kabul.
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