This first publication on Women and Men in Afghanistan: Baseline Statistics on Gender is therefore an effort to establish a statistical data base that would help strengthen advocacy planning and policy making from a gender perspective especially with in government. By putting together and analyzing little-known facts about women and men in Afghanistan, the publication attempts to bring to the fore the realities that marginal women and girl, make them invisible, and inadvertently lead to discrimination in various aspects of their lives. This handbook provides an initial source of the evidence needed to bring their concerns into public decision making
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