A young girl from the Spin Boldak District in the southern Kandahar province, Afghanistan, smiles as she waits for her mother to finish speaking at a female shura. Born after the Taliban's fall, the young girl is afforded the opportunities to go to school and chase her dreams because of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan's efforts to promoting gender equality, to include pushing for a more robust focus on girls education and having in its constitution clauses render women and men equal, and including women in the policy-making process.