"I support women's empowerment but will having a woman governor solve all these problems? "The attitudes throughout Afghanistan still are such that not everyone is ready to be governed by a woman," said Douglas Keh, Afghanistan country director at the United Nations Development Programme. "I recently replaced a man in the provincial council," she began.A council member interjected with a smirk. "There are schools but most don't have buildings, there are hospitals but many don't have doctors," said Haji Rasouli, a grocery seller in Nili. "To genuinely give women a role in governance, Ghani needs to push forward when he encounters opposition," said Heather Barr, a women's rights researcher at Human Rights Watch.

Source: Times of India August 01, 2016 12:11 UTC