{"id":2508,"date":"2025-12-01T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/01\/women-led-companies-launch-logar-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:00:23","slug":"women-led-companies-launch-logar-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/01\/women-led-companies-launch-logar-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Women-Led Businesses Launched in Logar, Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Industry and Commerce in Afghanistan\u2019s Logar province has announced the launch of three new production companies initiated by female entrepreneurs. The businesses operate in the fields of homemade food production, carpet weaving, and dried fruit processing.<\/p>\n<p>According to information provided by the department, a total of 28 people are currently employed at these facilities. Of these, 20 work in carpet weaving, four in food production, and another four in fruit processing.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration claims that following the establishment of their so-called &#8216;Islamic Emirate,&#8217; economic opportunities for women have expanded. However, many independent reports and observers have challenged this assertion, highlighting widespread restrictions imposed on women in education, social life, and economic participation since the Taliban takeover.<\/p>\n<p>Although Logar\u2019s Department of Industry and Commerce refers to more than 40 businesses and factories currently operating in the province, independent sources report that many of these ventures are struggling due to a lack of structural support for investors\u2014particularly women. Political instability, the Taliban\u2019s restrictive policies, and the absence of legal protections are cited as key factors hindering women\u2019s economic involvement in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three new women-led companies have started operations in Logar, focusing on food, carpet weaving, and dried fruit processing amid ongoing challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}