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Afghan women stage a protest for their rights to mark International Women’s Day, in Kabul on March 8, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)

BY FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION | The Taliban has issued over 100 edicts stripping Afghan women and girls of their most basic human rights and opportunities, effectively putting them under house arrest.

The timeline we’ve assembled here encompasses all the edicts and orders that impact women and girls, often addressing issues related to human rights, media freedom and movement restrictions.

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Afghan girls attend an Islamic school on the outskirts of Kabul on Feb. 13, 2023. These Islamic schools have grown across Afghanistan since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, after girls were banned from secondary schools. (AFP via Getty Images)

BY CLARA SCHOLL | Last summer, almost one year after the Taliban takeover, I spoke to 17-year-old Farzana about her life in Kabul. Now, two years since the U.S. withdrew their troops, Farzana, 18, feels she has very little to live for.

“It has been two years and the future looks dark. It’s not being alive, and not being dead. We have permission for neither. … I had the hope to be a great athlete and leader in the world—a leader for Afghan women. These are still my hopes and my goals, and even in this hard situation, I am doing my best to get an opportunity to find a university outside of Afghanistan.”

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In the U.S, full-time working mothers make 74 cents for every dollar a working father earns. That works out to about a $1,500 gap monthly, or $18,000 annually. (Cavan Images / Getty Images)

BY JULIE KASHEN and HEATHER MCCULLOCH | This year marks the 60th anniversary of the 1963 Equal Pay Act and Aug. 15 is Moms’ Equal Pay Day—the day that symbolizes how far into the year a mom must work to earn what men did in the previous calendar year.

An increasing number of mothers, including two-thirds of moms with young children, are breadwinners, and four out of five Black mothers are the sole or primary provider for their households. Yet America’s leaders and laws leave mothers to figure it out on their own—to simply ‘make it work. Despite the best efforts of the Biden administration and allies in Congress to invest in caregiving in the wake of the pandemic, every single cent of the care economy investments included in the “Build Back Better” package were left on the cutting room floor.

So what do we do about it?

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