Women in Afghanistan

Emirate of Afghanistan

!An 1848 [lithography showing a group of nomadic women somewhere along the Kabul–Kandahar Highway](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/GhilzainomadwomenofAfghanistanin1839-42.jpg/250px-GhilzainomadwomenofAfghanistanin1839-42.jpg)

Emirate of Afghanistan

!An Afghan girl photographed in 1880

Emirate of Afghanistan

During the Durrani Empire (1747–1823) and the early Barakzai dynasty Afghan women customarily lived subjected in a state of purdah and gender segregation imposed by patriarchal customs. While this was the case in all Afghanistan, the customs differed somewhat between regions and ethnic groups. Nomadic women, for example, did not have to hide their faces and even showed some of their hair.

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