Educating Girls and Empowering Women: Gender and Post-Conflict Educational Reform in Afghanistan

For decades now, Afghan women have been in and out of the veil and Afghan girls have been in and out of school in a progressive – reactionary “pendulum swing ” of gender-based policies, enacted by each successive governmental regime as part of its larger political agenda (Zulfacar, 2006). It is vital that policymakers and educators in Afghanistan understand this lon