Afghanistan Women's Roles In American Culture

Culture is defined as the study of the diversity of human behavior in the present.

Jack David, Eller. Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives. Publication Date: 2013

The topic I will be investigating in an anthropological way will be the role of women in Afghanistan society. Being a woman in Afghanistan is one of the most challenging things ever. An average of eighty five percent of women have zero schooling and are completely illiterate. The females have on average six live births each. It has also been found that one out of every ten children die before they turn five.

I have done some research on Afghanistan already and it is said that Afghanistan is the hardest place to be a woman, and most of the females die before their fifty first birthday. After the Taliban leadership had fallen

the government made a females opinion half in value of what a man’s stands for in a political stand. The fact that most women are illiterate the president signed laws for the afghan women. Laws passed that include explicitly permits marital rape, women cannot leave the house without have a purpose and more outrageous laws were passed. In more recent years there has been several changes to the laws for young girls and women. Females are allowed to seek work if male relatives allow it. Geographically I would go to Kabul in Afghanistan mainly because that’s where most of the research and statistics came from. The fact the Kabul is the capital and also the largest city in Afghanistan would give more of a variety in terms of places to do field work.
Out of the three methods of research participant observation would be most helpful yet the most difficult.

Helpful in the way that the women of Afghanistan are fully covered so as I observe and study their lives they will not easily be able to point out that I am not from afghan. Participant observation would also be difficult because most afghan women are not usually allowed to leave their homes so the variety of women to observe would be limited also I may have very different mannerisms of the afghan women. Another method of getting information would be by Interviews and Questionnaires this may not be the simplest considering that Afghanistan women are not really allowed to have their own voice, and it may be hard to get someone to talk considering to be out the have to have a male relative. Having one of them talking and speaking of how they live and the way they deal with lives would be sort of a major breakthrough for the society of women. The Participatory Approach would have to be me fully committing to a very difficult life I would have play the part of an Afghanistan women eat as they do attempt to speak like them everything the same way they naturally

would.