An Afghan woman forced to dress as a man

The video was taken on March 11, 2018 and shows Afghan female laborer Sitara Wafadar, 18, wo dresses as a male in order to support her family, posing for a brick factory in Sultanpur village in Surkh Rod District, in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar Province.

Sitara Wafadar, has disguised herself as a boy for more than a decade so that she can work and perform other male-only duties for her impoverished Afghan family.

In Afghanistan’s patriarchal society, a cross-dressing custom known as “bacha poshi” allows for daughters to dress as men and, in doing so, essentially function as sons.
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