Liza Donelly Cartoon Analysis

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in public without a burqa. For defying the regime's repressive laws, women were openly flogged and executed. But 13 years after the fall of the Taliban, and despite the influx of billions of dollars in development aid, many Afghan women are still living in terror.

In the first panel of the cartoon, one of them says, "I read that women in Afghanistan can't easily become police- they can only hold traditional female jobs." She has purposely written about the job of `police'. This is because the job of police requires physical and mental strength both at the same time. Being a part of the police is a physically challenging job because the job of the police is to protect people from any kind of danger. Working in the police also means that you need to work under the government in most of the countries. Becoming a part of the police in Afghanistan also grants you a lot of power over the civilians. Hence, if the women are also given a job in the police in Afghanistan it will give them ...

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