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Through the Ages
Afghan women from the 1960s to the present day
1962
In the 1960s and '70s, Afghanistan was a typical developing country,
poor and struggling, with a slowly expanding role for women. By 1964 they had
been granted the vote. Western-style clothes were not uncommon in Kabul in 1962,
when this photo was taken, though the head-to-toe-burka was ever present
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