'We will not allow boys and girls to study together.' Women in Afghanistan can continue to study in universities, including at post-graduate levels, but in no-men classrooms, says higher education minister in new Taliban government
A man gestures as he walks past a mural depicting a female student outside Afghanistan's Ministry of Higher Education in Kabul on September 9, 2021. but the classrooms will be gender-segregated.
The minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, laid out the new policies at a news conference on Sunday, several days after Afghanistan's new rulers formed an all-male, all-Taliban government. While Afghan society remains profoundly conservative with regard to women's rights even outside the Taliban's ranks, recent protests by women in Kabul and other cities have underlined how determined some are to preserve the gains of the past 20 years.Haqqani said the Taliban did not want to turn the clock back 20 years. "We will start building on what exists today," he said.
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