In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and birth of a daughter is seen as a misfortune. Jenny Nordberg tells us about discovering the phenomenon “bacha posh” (literally translated from Dari as “dressed up like a boy”) – a girl temporarily raised as a boy and presented to the world as a boy. Her book The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan gives an account of the girls secretly living as boys in a deeply segregated society where women have almost no rights and little freedom.