outside reading 4

Female cops test traditional gender roles in Afghanistan
By: Mark Sappenfield

For this outside reading assignment I read the article 'Female cops test traditional gender roles in Afghanistan'. This article was about female Afghans searching for equality in their country. The Afghanistan police department is an occupation dominated by men and as women try to make it into it they are faced with a frustrating lack of opportunity. There are some 80,000 men working in this department and no more then a few hundred women. In most countries the gender role in the job area has been fixed long ago but in places like Afghanistan they are still having difficulties with the change. I do not think this article was very well written because it offered little information was filled with useless facts that made the article very long.

Sappenfield, Mark. "Female cops test traditional gender roles in Afganistan". The Christian Science Monitor. 7 January, 2009. 6 February, 2009.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0107/p01s03-wosc.html