Afghan Businesswomen Still Battle Effects Of Taliban

Restrictions against Afghan women ended in 2001 with the fall of the Taliban - at least on paper. But an Afghan businesswoman who runs an embroidery company in a southern province said Oct. 13 at Thunderbird that gender disparity persists in her war-torn country. "Women's progress has been impeded," said Rangina Hamidi, a 2006 graduate of a two-week training program for Afghan women entrepreneurs at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Ariz.