1/4- The Taliban's finance ministry has ordered all MALE employees to return to work tomorrow. If they do not, they will be registered as absent and may be fired. Women employees are ordered to stay at home “until proper work environment is provided.” 
2/4: When the Taliban first took Kabul in Sept 1996, they issued a similar edict ordering female employees to stay home until “safe work environment” was provided. But during their 5 year rule, women remained banned from working except in some instances in the health sector.
3/4- According to official govt stats, there are around 400,000 govt employees out of which there are 120,000 women, working mostly in education sector. There were also around 5000 Afghan women working in the security sector.
4/4 During the efforts to start peace talks in Doha months ago, Taliban representatives had said women would be allowed to work, even as ministers but not as a president. Now that they are in power, they have banned women from working except in health sector.
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