RASC: Either Women beauticians in Afghanistan who have invested heavily in the beautician sector are asking the Taliban to withdraw the order to stop the beauty salons or they will have to leave the country.
A number of female beauticians who, with thousands of hopes for a better future, especially in the capital, have invested huge sums of money to set up their beauty salons; But now, with the order of the Taliban group to stop the activity of women’s beauty salons, their efforts and investments have gone to waste.
Maryam is one of these women investors who spent years and money for this work.
Maryam said: “We women are in a very bad state, Women and girls are imprisoned in Afghanistan and all of us are the breadwinners of our families.”
These women say that with each passing day, they step towards the destruction of their dreams. Dreams that are not easy to lose.
Another female beautician, Shaqaiq, says: “We are also human beings and we have the right to live a human life like the citizens of other countries, but no one understands us.”
Nevertheless, this pain is universal for women. Soudaba, who dreamed of a better life in Afghanistan and was trained in the beauticians department, has now decided to leave the country out of necessity.
“We are forced to leave the country and go to a foreign country, to be humiliated,” says Sudaba the hairdresser.
The Taliban group’s order to close women’s beauty salons in Afghanistan was met with domestic and foreign reactions.
A number of women demonstrated in Kabul on Wednesday in protest against the decision of the Taliban group, which the Taliban group suppressed, and some of these women say that they were beaten by the Taliban group.
Atifa, one of the female beauticians who participated in last Wednesday’s protest, says: “They beat us, followed us, and sprayed water on us with water sprinklers.”
As the Taliban group has said, these hair salons must stop their activities in 12 days.
A source in the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry said that 60,000 women are engaged in hairdressing in Afghanistan, and 12,000 businesses will be lost if their activities stop.
The International Labor Organization has also said that in the first four months of 2022, it recorded a 25% decrease in women’s work, which will show a significant drop in the number of women’s work in Afghanistan with the cessation of beauty parlors.
