{"id":51627,"date":"2023-01-04T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T06:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jan\/04\/afghan-men-quit-university-jobs-after-ban-on-women"},"modified":"2023-01-04T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T06:30:10","slug":"our-sisters-deserve-better-afghan-men-quit-university-jobs-after-ban-on-female-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51627","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our sisters deserve better\u2019: Afghan men quit university jobs after ban on female students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Taliban decree against higher education for women \u2013 called a \u2018betrayal of the nation\u2019 \u2013 has led to male lecturers and student walkouts in solidarity<\/p>\n<p>Baktash Amini loved his job as an assistant professor in the physics faculty at Kabul University. As well as having a passion for teaching, he took pride in helping his students pursue careers in physics, setting up partnershipswith the International Centre for Theoretical Physics and Cern, among others.<\/p>\n<p>But his efforts to further scientific education in Afghanistan seemed futile when the Taliban announced that women would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/20\/taliban-ban-afghan-women-university-education\">banned from university education<\/a>. \u201cThe night [the] Taliban closed the doors of universities to Afghan women, I received many messages and calls from my students. I cannot find the words to describe their situation. I am an academic and the only way I could express protest was by [leaving] a system that discriminates against women,\u201d he says. He resigned from his \u201cdream job\u201d on 21 December.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jan\/04\/afghan-men-quit-university-jobs-after-ban-on-women\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Taliban decree against higher education for women \u2013 called a \u2018betrayal of the nation\u2019 \u2013 has led to male lecturers and student walkouts in solidarityBaktash Amini loved his job as an assistant professor in the physics faculty at Kabul University. As w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3512,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,615,59,61,44,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-education","category-global-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51628,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51627\/revisions\/51628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}