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For female students in Afghanistan, education is separate and unequal. Classes are segregated by gender, and in some parts of the country, girls are prohibited from continuing school past sixth grade.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Ghazal Sharifi is an Afghan woman and mother of two. But she says her labor pains were nothing compared to the pain of not being able to legally represent her children. In ...