i. Having fallen in love with an Afghan who emigrated to the United States, she demands that her fiance fly home and ask her father for her hand in marriage, as required by national custom. And Guljan, obeying tradition, flies across the ocean to a warring country. After overcoming many difficulties, Guljan gets the consent of Rohila's father, plays a wedding and takes his young wife to the United States. Rohila shows true chastity. On the plane, the flight attendant announced that there were newlyweds in the cabin, and the passengers greeted them. But when Guljan tried to kiss his wife, she resisted: "Why rush? We'll get home soon... What a shaitan you are! After all, people look at us" [Shpun, 1999, p. 122].

In the Afghan diaspora in the West, there is also a problem with the status of women. This can be proved by an episode that took place at the end of 2000 in

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the Canadian city of Vancouver. According to the magazine Fikr wa Fan (Art and Thought), the Afghan community intended to apply to the city authorities with a request to allocate its members a plot in the city cemetery so that they could bury their loved ones there in accordance with their religion and tradition. The community council, which consisted of 30 men and two women, decided to send a delegation of 10 people of different nationalities and faiths (Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, Uzbeks, Shiites and Sunnis) to the mayor. One of the women also supported the participation of women in the delegation. But no agreement was reached on this issue, and the meeting was postponed indefinitely. For Afghans, even those who have come into contact with Western democratic institutions, the issue of women's participation in the public life of the diaspora remains complex, sometimes unsolvable.

Nevertheless, life in Western countries provides an opportunity for educated Afghan women to express themselves in the active political life of the diaspora. Such women include Aziza Wasifi; Shafika Ziyai; and Farida Azizi, who lives in the United States and is very active in the fight for women's rights. She fled the country in 2000 and was granted political asylum in the United States. In 2003, Farida Azizi visited Afghanistan.

In Afghanistan itself, where the economy is devastated, abject poverty reigns, social and cultural life has only just begun to recover after the rule of the Taliban, and there are some changes in the status of women. A kind of conquest can be considered the return of female announcers to television, the participation of women in voting in the September 2004 elections, their inclusion in the government, in the governor's office, their employment in the state apparatus, etc. Although, according to experts, " today the situation in Afghanistan repeats itself: the government and its external allies They control cities (some only during daylight hours), and only Allah knows what happens in the outback" (Malashenko, 2004, p. 13).

However, given the country's continued political stability and the absence of any social cataclysms, it is hoped that the role of women in Afghan society will increase and they will take their rightful place in a traditionally male-dominated society.

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