Did ‘gender studies’ lose Afghanistan? How Ivy League diplomats sought to remake Afghanistan in Harvard’s image. $787 million was spent on gender programs, but that substantially understates the actual total, since gender goals were folded into practically every undertaking made in the country.

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[–]Alan_Crowe 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My favourite factoid

Under the US’s guidance, Afghanistan’s 2004 constitution set a 27 per cent quota for women in the lower house — higher than the actual figure in America!

The article builds a good case.

[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Charlie Wilson handed us Afghanistan back in the 1980's and we wasted it.

[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Your bot script is malfunctioning, bot.

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Look through post history. Same replies used several times over the past month. Strange though, because it seems like it's only scripted replies are used intermixed between more thought out ones-- almost like it's put on an auto-post or something during certain times and triggered by certain words or phrases.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The best way to solve sex discrimination and attainment is the education of girls.

As most people in Afghanistan are still illiterate so I'm going to guess that issue wasn't a priority.

They didn't need quotas, representation and initiatives, they needed to get kids into schools. Basic stuff.

Then if the population has some basic knowledge they can come up with their own government which is not either the corruption in Kabul or the Taliban rather than just waiting for something to be imposed on them.