Afghan women turn to entrepreneurship but struggle to access capital

Raise a Glass to Malbec! Malbec World Day, April 17 | SaltWire #reels #shorts #wine #foodKABUL - Female-led businesses now represent an economic lifeline for Afghan women living under Taliban restrictions, but face a series of problems accessing capital and markets, a United Nations Development Programme study released on Wednesday showed.

The Taliban have not formally banned women from work but have barred many Afghan female aidworkers, shuttered beauty salons, which employed tens of thousands of women, and limited women's movement and work in many institutions without a male guardian. However female entrepreneurship has continued and some Taliban officials, including the commerce minister, have said their administration wants to support female businesses, many of which employ women in carpet weaving, handicrafts, dried fruit and saffron production.

Sadeqa Sadiqyar, a member of the Afghan Women's Chamber of Commerce and Industry in western Herat province said her fruit snack business employed eight women and had managed to open a second branch since 2021.

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