51 Female Engineers Get Refresher Degrees
Fifty-one female engineers graduated from a refresher course at Kabul University, some after updating skills that went unused because of the Taliban’s discrimination against them.
The students, all of whom are graduate engineers, received refresher instruction in civil engineering and water and sanitation engineering, including public health projects.
Under the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban government, which was ousted by a U.S.-led coalition in December, women in Afghanistan were mostly barred from institutes of higher education and from seeking employment outside of their homes.
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