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The Afghan girls who live as boys
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15262680
For economic and social reasons, many Afghan parents want to have a son. This preference has led to some of them practising the long-standing tradition of Bacha Posh - disguising girls as boys.
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Fariba Majid, the head of the Women's Rights Department in the northern province of Balkh, used to go by the boy's name Wahid.
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She thinks that experience helped her gain confidence and helped her get where she is today.
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"I experienced both the world of men and of women and it helped me to be more ambitious in my career."
(more at link)
For economic and social reasons, many Afghan parents want to have a son. This preference has led to some of them practising the long-standing tradition of Bacha Posh - disguising girls as boys.
(snip)
Fariba Majid, the head of the Women's Rights Department in the northern province of Balkh, used to go by the boy's name Wahid.
(snip)
She thinks that experience helped her gain confidence and helped her get where she is today.
(snip)
"I experienced both the world of men and of women and it helped me to be more ambitious in my career."
(more at link)
Sorry about the choppy excerpt. Love one-sentence paragraphs. Always good. I would have used the first few 'paragraphs' but they were personal story type things and not so illustrative of anything in particular. IMO a very interesting article about something I previously knew nothing about.
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