Afghan Woman to Run For President: Is There a Possibility of the Religiously Conservative People Electing a Woman President in Afghanistan?

Afghan woman sets sights on presidency in a man’s land | Democracy vote

Leading Afghan women’s rights champion, author, lawmaker and presidential hopeful, Fawzia Koofi, has a revealing anecdote about life as a woman in a man’s land. As she walked out of the Presidential Palace in Kabul recently, a conservative male parliamentary colleague approached her.