According to the banking government, the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan has tremendously reduced the pay for women working in the public sector.
” Women who are at home and do not go to the office… their salaries are 5, 000 Afghanis ($ 70 ) a month”, Ahmad Wali Haqmal, the finance ministry spokesman, told AFP.
Women who work in isolated areas, for as government hospitals or schools, will also receive their complete pay regardless of the position they hold.
Recently, people in the open market, including college professors who are now banned from school, may earn up to about 35, 000 Afghanis. Administrative tasks in ministers normally paid around 20, 000 Afghanis, but some saw their salaries reduced to about 15, 000 after the Taliban takeover.
While these people continue to receive pay, their incomes have been slashed. Since the ultra-Islamist party seized power in 2021, Afghan women have been forced to prevent employment.
One 25-year-old person who has worked for the Knowledge and Culture section outside of Kabul since early 2021 reported that her income has decreased from 10,000 Afghanis to 10,000. She requested secrecy for safety reasons. She uses her income to pay her seven children, including her poor mother, but the reduced pay only lasts her for two weeks.
Making ladies stay at home now poses a significant problem for us because we are already in a very bad mental and psychological state, and as a result, the situation has just gotten worse, she told AFP.
According to the official for the financing ministry, the wage change, which became effective in July, is anticipated to have an impact on tens of thousands of people working in the public sector.
The Taliban government has greatly restricted women’s rights since regaining control in 2021 based on a strict view of Islamic law, which the UN has referred to as “gender apartheid.”
People have been excluded from public existence, with restrictions on education and access to public parks, facilities, and pools.
Afghanistan has long relied on foreign assistance, which has considerably decreased since the Taliban’s return to power, and has been devastated by decades of war. In 2023, the UN Women estimated that about 29.2 million people, almost 70 per share of the people, required immediate humanitarian aid to survive.
