Paper - "Equal Rights, Unequal Opportunities" on Women's Participation in Afghanistans Elections

The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) has released a new paper that deals with women's rights in Afghanistan. It is entitled "Equal Rights, Unequal Opportunities: Women's Participation in Afghanistan's Parliamentary and Provincial Council Elections", by multiple authors, dated March 2012. The paper is available on the AREU website in Adobe Acrobat PDF format here. Learn more about women in Afghanistan. A brief description of the document (taken from the AREU website) is below:

"The establishment of a democratic system under Afghanistan’s 2004 constitution has without doubt led to an unprecedented expansion of political participation for its women. In the years that have followed, millions of women have turned out to vote in successive rounds of presidential, legislative and provincial elections. Thousands more have competed for positions in parliament and the provincial councils. A new AREU paper explores some of the dynamics of women’s participation as candidates and voters in these elections, drawing on conversations with successful and unsuccessful female candidates, along with men and women in six study communities spread across Balkh, Bamiyan and Kabul provinces."