Women Participation Increases in Sar-e-Pul Local Government

Officials in northern Sar-e-Pul say the number of women working in governmental offices has increased by 30 percent.

The officials indicate, increasing the literacy of the women and their growing interest in public engagements lead to the increscent. 

Gul Mohammadi, a local official in the province told Ariana News, 3,000 vacant positions announced this year with women applying for the positions was nearly 800.

Officials in the provinces are hopeful with increasing numbers of women in public service agencies, serving to women in the province would get better.

Hashim Omari, a local official in Sar-e-Pul informed, as of now, 300 women have been introduced to governmental offices via “promote” an UN-backed program for increasing women engagement in the country – to local offices and a number of them has been employed permanently.

While at the neighboring Samangan province, women complain of decreasing women presence in Medias.

Some of these women, mostly young ladies, while being so interested in working for public, in particular for Medias, but traditional mentality block them.

Samangan has traditionally been one of the cultural hubs in Afghanistan, but now, only three media actively operating in the province.

Freedom of speech and women involvement in the public sphere has been one of the rare and handful achievements of Afghan government and its global allies.