Without this outer body garment, and a blood relative or male guardian, women are not allowed leave their homes by themselves.
What is Burqa (برقع Burqu’)?
100
While 43.1 % of men in Afghanistan are literate, compared to men the literacy rate of Afghan women is much lower.
What is 12.6%
100
There are two main subgroups of the Islamic tradition, the Sunni and the Shia. This subgroup is the majority of the Afghanistan's population.
What is Sunni Muslims?
Sunni Muslims consists of 80% of Afghanistan’s population Shia consist of 19% of Afghanistan’s population. The other 1% are various other religions.
100
This is the percentage of female representatives in Afghanistan’s National Assembly.
What is 27% ?
100
This is the average life expectancy of an Afghan woman.
What is 45.25 years ?
200
Starting from this age, Afghan girls are not allowed to be in direct contact with men unless that man is their blood relative or husband.
What is 8 years old?
200
While the average school life expectancy from primary to tertiary school for boys is 11 years of age this is the average school life expectancy for girls.
What is 7 years of age or 7 years old ?
200
This is the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan.
What is Pashtun?
1)Pashtun 42%
2)Tajik 27%
3)Hazara 9%
4)Uzbek 9%
5)Aimak 4%
6)Turkmen 3%
7)Baloch 2%
8)other 4%
200
The constitution requires the President of Afghanistan, Harmad Karzai, to appoint this percentage of women to the Meshrano Jirga (translates to "House of Elders" which is an upper house of the bicameral National Assembly of Afghanistan)
What is 50%?
200
Because of scarcity of food, preventable diseases, poor sanitation facilities, and lack of clean water, 25% of Afghan children die before this age.
What is 5 years old?
300
In October 1996, an Afghan woman had the tip of her thumb cut off for wearing a forbidden cosmetic product.
What is Nail polish?
300
In 1996, the Taliban forbid women from attending school. Now with the fall of the Taliban regime since 2008 there are 5.8 million children in school. This is the percentage of girls currently in school.
What is 40%
300
Though a women's right to vote was revoked during Taliban Rule (1996-2001), This was the year that women first got the right to vote.
What is 1965?
300
Under Article 22 in Afghanistan’s Constitution, women and men have these types of rights under the law.
What are Equal Rights?
300
This is the number of children born per woman in Afghanistan.
What is 5.39 children born per woman. (Around 5 children)
400
On September 30, 1996, the Taliban announced that all women were banned from employment. However, one particular profession was exempt from this employment ban.
What is Health Care Profession?
400
The destruction of schools by the Taliban has become a major problem in Afghanistan. This fact (as well as others) deters many families from sending their children to school. This is the amount of schools destroyed per year by the Taliban.
What is 150 schools?
400
During the 1920s, this King of Afghanistan not only led Afghanistan in its fight for independence from the British but also developed modern reforms in Afghanistan such as building more schools for boys and girls, overturning strict dress codes for women and increasing trade with Europe and Asia.
Who is King Amanullah Khan?
400
This woman is the first female governor in Afghanistan and she also served as the Minister of Woman’s Affairs in Afghanistan.
Who is Habiba Sarabi?
400
While only two women die a day giving birth in the US, this is the amount of Afghan women who die a day giving birth in Afghanistan.
What is 50-70?
500
This term means the practice of concealing women from men. This term takes two forms: physical separation of the sexes and the requirement for women to conceal their bodies by wearing outer body garments. The Taliban base their treatment of women on this term and Pashtunwali values.
What is Purdah or pardeh (from Persian: پرده, meaning "curtain")?
500
According to the Afghan's Women Network, this is the percentage of young women and girls that make up the total number of University students in Afghanistan.
What is 30% ?
500
Founded in 1977 by activist Meena Keshwar Kamal, this influential independent political and social organization has been fighting for Afghan women's rights and still continues to fight today.
What is the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)?
500
Founded by Fatima Nazari in February 18th 2004, Afghanistan’s first political female party is called by this name.
What is National Need?
500
Beating Somalia and Chad for 1st place, Afghanistan has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world.
Hint: (out of 100,000) ___/100,000