Three Afghan women who worked at a media company were gunned down in Jalalabad in early March. In January, unidentified gunmen killed two female Supreme Court judges in Kabul.
These are the latest victims on a long list of assassinations and attempted assassinations of female politicians and women’s rights activists.
The American poet Ambrose Bierce wrote in 1906 that a philanthropist is “a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.”
While this satirical description may have resonated at the time, it no longer rings true today – in terms of the physical description if not the metaphorical critique.
The Biden administration has a woman, Vice President Kamala Harris, in its second-highest position, and 61% of White House appointees are women.
Now, it has declared its intention to “protect and empower women around the world.”
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