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00:00In 1971, I graduated from college here in New York, and that year women in Switzerland were granted the right to vote.
00:13Women in Afghanistan, of course, had enjoyed that right already for half a century.
00:18Women in Afghanistan received the vote in 1919, 30 years before the women in France, well before women in the United States received the right to vote.
00:31The way that this culture, this society has been upended is a cautionary tale for the rest of the world.
00:39In the 70s, most of the civil servants were women, over half the teachers, doctors, there were women jurists, lawyers, in every profession, and then the world upended.
00:55And today, in Kabul, a female cat has more freedoms than a woman.
01:02A cat may go sit on her front stoop and feel the sun on her face.
01:07She may chase a squirrel into the park.
01:11A squirrel has more rights than a girl in Afghanistan today because the public parks have been closed to women and girls by the Taliban.
01:22A bird may sing in Kabul, but a girl may not, and a woman may not in public.