Acting Kabul Mayor Says About The Only Job Women Can Do Is Clean Female Bathrooms

VIDEO: Women municipal workers will not be returning to work in Kabul, unless they occupy "positions that men could not fill or that were not for men", says Molavi Hamdullah Nomani, the Taliban member who holds the post of Mayor of Kabul pic.twitter.com/cgiaSMAuqF

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CNN: About the only job women can do for the Kabul government is clean female bathrooms, acting mayor says 

(CNN)Female employees in the Kabul city government have been told to stay home, and only women whose jobs cannot be done by men are allowed to come to work -- the latest restrictions imposed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. 

The order, announced by Kabul's acting Mayor Hamdullah Nohmani on Sunday, effectively means women are now barred from government work in the Afghan capital. One of the only jobs women can do for the Kabul government is clean female bathrooms, according to the announcement. 

The order leaves hundreds of women out of work. Nohmani said there are 2,930 people working for the municipality -- 27% of whom are women. 

Fear is mounting for women and girls in Afghanistan after the Taliban seized control of the country last month. Despite repeated assurances to respect women's rights, the order on female government employees is the latest sign the freedoms of the last 20 years are coming to an end. 

Since the takeover, women have been ordered to leave their workplaces in some areas, restrictions on girls' and women's education have been introduced, and women have been completely excluded from the country's hardline new government. 

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WNU Editor: You just know there will be more restrictions in the weeks and months ahead. 

More News On Afghan Restrictions For Its Female Population  

Taliban-run Kabul city government tells female workers to stay home -- NBC  

Taliban tells women and girls to stay home from work and school -- CBS/AFP  

Taliban orders women employees in Afghanistan's capital to stay at home, official says -- Insider  

Taliban forces Kabul's female city employees out of their jobs -- Axios

A Harsh New Reality for Afghan Women and Girls in Taliban-Run Schools -- New York Times 

Afghan women demand their rights under Taliban rule -- DW