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one of the links above. Young Afghan girls look out the window
from their classroom in Manogai village, East Afghanistan. More
than a third of Afghanistan's 5 million schoolchildren are now
girls, compared with practically none in early 1992. The
repressive Taliban regime banned the education of girls. They
began to trickle back to classrooms only after the US-supported
Northern Alliance ousted the regime in 2001. Despite significant
progress having been made since then, UNICEF said that the main
impediments to girls at school included resource issues, like a
lack of female teachers and inadequate school facilities, along
with some socio-cultural factors hampering the process. Schools
in the country remain segregated by gender and boys have to be
taught be men and girls by female teachers. There are currently
1,350 girls' schools, along with 2,900 other institutions that
hold split s