Gender Equality Should Be a Pillar of US Foreign Policy

Gender Equality Should Be a Pillar of US Foreign Policy
AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

It was the women who noticed something suspicious. In a community in southern Afghanistan, unfamiliar people were knocking on doors, asking families if their sons would be interested in working on foreign investment projects. But the local women knew that foreign investments in this remote corner of Afghanistan were unlikely. As they investigated, they learned the community's boys were actually being targeted for something far more unsavory: recruitment by militants.

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