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The Taliban’s beauty salon ban will be a major blow to women’s financial independence

bourbiza July 21, 2023 Top Stories Leave a comment 33 Views

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A Taliban order to shutter women’s beauty salons comes into effect on 25 July.
Many women in Afghanistan’s beauty services sector are the main breadwinners for their families.
The ban may see 60,000 women lose their jobs, according to industry estimates.

For the last eight years, Marzia Reyazee has supported her family with the earnings from her female-only beauty salon in Afghanistan, a business she spent more than US$18,000 ($26,650 Australian dollars) setting up.

But the 34-year-old mother of two is likely to find herself without her business, and with few other prospects for a…

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