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have kids. we look at why ah, by british manager, welcome to did up the news asia, glad you could join us. the un has asked of got his $1000.00 bond rulers to provide details about the whereabouts, a well known education campaign that matthew love, base up. mesa who runs the education and jill ben boff was allegedly picked up by the taliban in kabul. on monday. he is respected for his efforts towards educating afghanistan's children, including dulls since the taliban band, secondary education for them. it's a band that's drained all hopes of a future for goals, and left them with very few options. ah, these girls are learning the koran, him a dresser in kabul, the taliban,

his band girls of their age from going to a normal school. so for most, this is all there is some welcome the opportunity to meet friends outside of the home. and again, be part of a group with a common purpose, but they know it's no substitute for a real education about their selfish comerica. them address a cannot help me to become a doctor because that's done through school. and unfortunately, schools are closed out of the sofa, but still them address. it is good to me. it's good for increasing our religious knowledge. and it's a good place to enhance our abilities today. but other than that, if you have to hold them all while donna degrass, the girls also know that they will not be going to university. after the taliban decreed that only men are allowed to study at such a high level. but what are the downsides of excluding women and girls in this way?

on at this women's hospital in cobble, one problem is already coming into view. health care is strictly segregated by sex in afghanistan. that means that if no female doctors are available than more women will simply be left to die. like the mother of this woman birth father, i didn't know her, richard go to my daughter and then she died. rhonda that day i decide to which i have to become a doctor, come seep the tele, bounce restrictions on women, also damaging the economy and any prospects for future growth. according to the world bank, the taliban point to women only shopping centers like this one in the eastern city

of herat as part of the way forward. but such statements of meaning were millions of women and girls remained barred from playing an active role in life. in afghanistan for some of the ronnie is director of the nonprofit learn and join me from brantley in message is sense, is there any, are older i've gone goals at all? being able to access education entirely, bundled, have got it done right now. and now, when it comes to public schools, the younger want to spend a 13 to eating can not access any schooling, although their 1st to keep them getting access to education by different entities in jewish increase school activities. but the government itself or the back to the gym, has not put any effort towards distribution. you're talking about the efforts by

india to keep the education going and also of secret schools. how many of these schools are there and how many girls are they being able to serve? honestly, people to care, to even talk to each other. randy schools, i'm preschool and i'm scared to tell anyone how many students they have. where do i have them? the fingers to anyone. i know people who run it in here, i've been call and my thought in different cities of fun. but i think everyone is scared because it's a secret school, illegal in a country where learning is bad right now from grade 70 and going on and seeing goods for making it. there's no work for the teachers who are working. there's also many dire situation right now, given what you're saying, what are the prospects for con girls in their own country? now, honestly, they're not to be honest and be very open about it. right now. there's no constitution to no right to work. no right to was no right to go and grinding

parliament for politics. know right. to be leadership of michigan. no. to be in in the economics. not being public office. so i'm a condemn, a prospect. and it to me thing to see this to the girls on the, on the phone and young parents still believe that girls should be in school and they should be learning even if there is no profit for them. the un security council has recently called for an independent assessment of how to deal with the taliban and refusal to reinstate women education. in addition to other challenges, what hope is there? you think if the international community itself is running out of ideas? honestly, i mean you're a new at this bring relief, laughable begins talking to the precinct leadership at the you went and that was the week i saw this one army personnel getting so repeated back plastic bag. and

when i talked to her, she told me, we have to talk a work with them. we have to work with the colorado. and for me, it was like, yeah, it's easy for you to say given that you are sitting in new york and it's hard for us to imagine because they haven't been good on any of the promises that they promised that they meet. and they're still killing people and they're still abusing human rights, and they're still abusing young teenage girls. so for me, i personally do think it sure basses into teaming the international and international community. very few people care about 100 now and leave it there for the time being unfortunate. they've had so much for joining us today on other ronnie, thank you so much. thank you for having ah, there. earlier this month, japanese prime minister from york issued a pledge to make it possible for some 85 percent of fathers to take better to leave from their jobs by 2030. the incentive is aimed at tackling the falling birthrate.

shadows party v l d p has also proposed for giving student loans for people who get mattered or have a baby tissue. their said and i caught in the 2013 the young population in japan will decline at twice the current rate. the next 6 to 7 years will be the last chance to turn around. the declining birthrate. gentlemen are for more on this is did other news asia bought a michelle, a stock when michelle. welcome, given what prime minister for mucous should or has just said it would appear that the student debt forgiveness a deer is a good thing, right? it might sound like that, especially if we look at japanese tuition rates. they have gone up 40 times since 1972. and also in that period there's been wage stagnation and tax hakes. so families have less disposable income to pay for their children's education. and more young people have to take out student loans. if they want to go to college, but this proposal has had a raw nerve, especially amongst women. some see it as social engineering to make them baby

making machines when they think they might find fulfillment in other ways in life. and. and especially if you look at the way it's formulated some think it's discriminatory. you know, what about women who can have babies or don't want to have babies? why not cut tuition fees across the board? and i spoke to a woman. her name is anna. it's a pseudonym, actually, she is active in the japanese feminist space. and an during her interview, she didn't want to show her face on camera, but she read out a tweet that was her reaction to this proposal and will play it for you right now. and that's her voice. you're going to here right now on this to instead of actually listening to the women and the people for what they want, they incentivize birth with money. meanwhile, childbirth is still not covered by the national health insurance or the counter pills are unavailable. abortion pills are not approved now, parental leave rate minimal. so even if the l d p government wants to increase

mail parental leave, it's not necessarily true that men are going to take it and there's a whole host of other things that women have asked for. that they feel like the government isn't listening to and needs to listen to women. so what do women want? so there are a bunch of disincentives baked into the japanese system that make it a daunting choice for women to decide to have a baby. first of all, many of them have a regular contracts. that means they have to be renewed, there's an end date to them. and so there's a job in security. women want more job security. so if they have a baby or get married, they aren't hearing losing their job. they also want reform to the tax system that penalize is to income earners. they also want more affordable child care, especially in big metropolises like to pan. there's just a lack of child care spaces and also women want help from the men in their lives. women survey suggest that japanese women do 7 times the amount of household chores that men do. and also when it comes to child rearing,

they're the ones that need to go to the school meetings that are often during the work day and little finicky things, like they have to put tags and all their children's clothes. they have to keep a diary for their children, a whole huge mental load for women, and they feel like the men in their life just aren't there. in fact, anna said to me, during an interview, we're having to be both the mom and the dad. and the dad is nowhere to be seen. speaking of dads, japanese been also face challenges if they want to become stronger, they do, and even if they want to be more involved, there is a societal pressure that men should be the bread winner. and that means men have to participate in a hard core work culture in japan that demands long hours in the office and also socializing after work. and again, if we talk about those contracts more people have irregular contracts than the lifelong contracts. and so there's a certain job insecurity, and that can make men seem like not an attractive marriage partner, and there's a game in japan called the hellish of life. and if you don't land on the spot that

gives you one of these long term lifelong contracts, the rest of the game is hellish. now it's just a game, but it's derived from, from some truth in life. well, as crew to reserve feminist turkey, she does n d p party might be trying to get to try and booster birthdate. none of that raptor will it unless societal values, the society pressure that you talked about changes. you know, there's a lot of men and women in japan who want to embrace these traditional gender roles . who do want to see the man is the main breadwinner, who want to see the women at her. but the pressure, the economic pressure on couples make it so the numbers just don't add up any more . and anna was saying to me, there's something that really symbolizes the vice, that she sees women and, and that's going on the subway in tokyo. and we see a mother bring her baby on the subway. she has to take the baby out, take all the bags off, load herself up, fold the carrots together,

and take up as little space as possible and kind of do it with grace and ease. and this to her symbolizes the burdens that women in japan feel like they have to bear . and right now, you know, the l d p is making some proposals, things need to change, but a lot of women say they're not listening to what women want. and unless they do, women are going to take themselves and continue to take themselves out of the equation. thankfully ah, ah, what people have to say to us, or that's why we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on d. w. a, a,

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