The laws laid down by the Taliban concerning women have succeeded in practically excluding them from public life, forbidding them on principle, in the towns, from working outside their homes.
This caused tens of thousands of female employees, freelance workers and co-workers of the I.O. to be made unemployed, which  made living conditions even worse for the widows, of which there are more than 50,000 in the only capital.

In 1996 alone, before the arrival of the Taliban in Kabul, 60% of the state administration workforce were women, who for the most part filled secondary positions.
However, this harsh treatment affects the men just as much as the women, because it is the husbands who are punished, when the women step out of line.
They are fined, beaten or sent to prison, which illustrates the point, that the regime insists upon the male taking responsibility as far as controling the female's behaviour goes.
The principal of the total seperation of the sexes at first also took place within the medical sector, with a medical system of total seperation .
All society  felt the effects of a regime who all in the name of giving security to life and improving it, imposed using force, a moral Utopia, without improving in any way the overall state of poverty that was due to destruction and under-development.

The Taliban order, based on a very strict interpretation of the religious law of the "chariat", preaches a global and systematic project which touches all of society.
The Taliban deny that the measures they impose are against women and deprive them of their rights.
On the contrary, they claim to be re-establishing these rights by strictly following the law of the "chariat", therefore re-establishing the proper relationship between men and women.
Its promoters declare that they are working in favour of womens' honour, rights and their dignity.

What are these rights?
What are the basic principles of the woman's place in society according to Mullah Omar, leader of the followers of the Islamic Emirat of Afghanistan?
For a start, his doctrine imposes a certain conception of the female character which justifies the combination of duty and responsibility.
According to Mullah Omar: "Allmighty God created man and woman in a different way so that they might fulfil different roles on this earth.
A proverb states that domestic chores are the female's duty, whilst the outside world belongs to the warriors".