Afghan women determined, frustrated after Taliban NGO ban

Even before the Taliban barred Afghan women from working at non-governmental groups, their forces visited the office of one local organization in the capital Kabul several times to check female staff were obeying rules on dress codes and gender segregation.
Already, the women in the office had been extra careful, hoping to avoid problems with the Taliban. One female NGO employee told The Associated Press, they wore longer clothes and masks along with the Islamic headscarf and stayed separate from male co-workers in the workspace and at meals.
She said, “We even changed our office arrival and departure times because we didn’t want to be followed” by the Taliban.
That wasn’t enough. On Saturday, Taliban authorities announced the exclusion of women from NGOs, allegedly because they weren’t wearing the headscarf, or hijab, correctly.