Original sentence: From the age of eight, women were not allowed to be in direct contact with men, other than a close blood relative.Other restrictions were:.husband, or in-law (see (mahram))
Edited sentence: Examples of gender targeted Taliban decrees:.In female propriety then from the age of 8 direct contact with men was limited to a mahram or husband.Policies were enacted to uphold this ideal.The Afghan Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice was officially under the jurisdiction of the Justice Department, yet Maulvi Kalamadin the head of the religious police stated, “we are an independent organization and we don’t take advice from the Justice Ministry or the Supreme Court about what we should implement”.The Taliban idealised purdah, a curtain of segregation, invisibility and anonymity, that enveloped women in order to protect them.The decrees issued by the religious police impacted all areas of public life under Taliban control and affected the ways women could conduct their lives.They departed from Afghan Law which allocated the age of 18 as an indicator of womanhood, and implemented the cusp of female childhood to be much lower at 7