Though women’s rights in Afghanistan have improved since the fall of the repressive Taliban regime 12 years ago, many Afghans still believe that a woman should work only in the home, caring for her family. Technology entrepreneur Roya Mahboob is working in clever new ways to change this continuing cultural stereotype. Mahboob’s Afghan Citadel Software Co., an IT consulting firm founded in 2010, employs 25 people, 18 of whom are women. Her employees develop software and databases for private companies, government ministries and NATO. To make these jobs more accessible to Afghan women, five of the employees are able to work from home.

Mahboob’s plans are even more ambitious. Most public access to the Internet in Afghanistan is restricted to urban Internet cafés, which are often uncomfortable or unsafe places for women. That doesn’t work for Mahboob — so she is building 40 free Internet-enabled classrooms across Afghanistan to allow more than 160,000 female students to connect to the world. She also founded a multilingual blog and video site to give these women a platform for telling their stories. Nearly 300 female student bloggers have posted on the site, making themselves heard and changing the way the world sees Afghanistan … and how Afghan girls and women see themselves.

Sandberg is the COO of Facebook and author of Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead

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通過桑德伯格2013年4月18日
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儘管阿富汗婦女的權利，因為鎮壓塔利班政權12年前的秋天已經改善，許多阿富汗人仍然認為女人應該在家裡唯一的工作，照顧她的家人。科技創業者Roya酒店馬赫布卜工作在巧妙的新方法來改變這種持續不斷的文化刻板印象。馬赫布卜的阿富汗堡壘軟件有限公司，成立於2010年的IT諮詢公司，擁有員工25人，其中18人是婦女。她的員工開發的軟件和數據庫的私人公司，政府部門和北約。為了使這些工作更容易獲得阿富汗婦女，五名員工都能夠在家裡工作。

馬赫布卜的計劃更是雄心勃勃。大多數公共訪問阿富汗的互聯網只限於市區網吧，這往往是不舒服或不安全的地方的婦女。這並不為馬赫布卜工作 - 所以她正在建設40免費上網功能的教室阿富汗各地，讓超過16萬的女學生與世界。她還創辦了一個多語種博客和視頻網站給這些婦女一個平台，講述他們的故事。近300名女學生的博客已經發布在網站上，發表自己的意見和不斷變化的世界看到阿富汗的路上......怎麼阿富汗女孩和婦女看到自己。

桑德伯格是Facebook的首席運營官和作者精益在：女性，工作和意志鉛