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Social Status of Afghan Women During The History… M. Z. Saeidi & M. Ghanbari Alanaq (65
This was the general condition of of his son Ẓāhir Shāh, the situation of
women during the Abdali period. the Afghan society began to improve.
Although ‘Aisha Durrānī and Fīrūzeh The social presence of women and
Kābulī were poets and literate women education among women developed,
who lived during the time of the Abdali and special schools for women were
Shāhs. A poetry notebook has been established, and the number of students
preserved from ‘Aisha Durrānī, but reached six thousand girls, and the total
only scattered verses have survived number of school students in this
from Fīrūzeh Kābulī (Anoūsheh, 2002, period was more than one hundred
Vol. 3, p. 789). Of course, it should be thousand (Jāvīd, 2003, p. 87).
noted that during the time of the Abdali Under the pressure of the
Shāhs, women participated in political international system and the Kennedy
and social affairs through political doctrine, the government was forced to
marriages that were carried out to take measures to reform social structures.
consolidate the foundations of power. Meanwhile, women wanted active
4.2. The Rule of Nāder Khān and presence and participation in the
His Family country's social and political system at
After the government of Amānullāh the same time as the Shāh's reforms.
and during the rebel government of These reforms led to the social
Bacha Saqaw, the first thing that was classification of women and the
done was to close the women's schools persuasion of some elites to communist
and the Kābul Women's Association ideas, and it was during this period that
and the Irshād al-Niswān magazine the women's democratic organization
and forcibly return the Afghan students was formed and women entered the
sent from Turkey (Jāvīd, 2003, p. 87). parliament in the first elections (Meḥrabī,
After him, the same process continued 2010, p. 342).
during the time of Nāder Khān, During the period of Moḥammad
because he wanted a limited and slow Ẓāhir Shāh, there were three female
transformation in the administration of ministers in the cabinet, and until the
the government only in the military early 1990s, most of the teachers, half
field so as not to harm the interests and of the government employees, and
influence of those in power, so that in 70% of the doctors in this country were
this way he could take the throne of women (Zafaranchi, 2010, p. 174).
Afghanistan. keep for yourself (Ġobār, 4.3. Women in The Communist
1989, Vol. 2, pp. 34-35). Government (1978)
But after the end of the four-year The People’s Democratic Party of
rule of Nāder Khān and during the time Afghanistan took power in 1978 after a
