The government had sponsored literacy classes for all women.
Almost two thirds of the students at Kabul University were women now, Babi said, women who were studying law, medicine, engineering.
“Women have always had it hard in this country, Laila, but they're probably more free now, under the communists,”
“and have more rights than they've ever had before,” Babi said, always lowering his voice,
aware of how intolerant Mammy was of even remotely positive talk of the communists.
“But it's true,” Babi said, “it's a good time to be a woman in Afghanistan.”
And you can take advantage of that, Laila. Of course, women's freedom here,” he shook his head ruefully,
is also one of the reasons people out there took up arms in the first place.”
By “out there,” he didn't mean Kabul, which had always been relatively liberal and progressive.
Here in Kabul, women taught at the university, ran schools, held office in the government.
No, Babi meant the tribal areas, especially the Pashtun regions in the south or in the east near the Pakistani border,
where women were rarely seen on the streets and only then in burqa and accompanied by men.
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