Lived experience of female representatives of Affirmative action strategy in Afghanistan (phenomenological study).

After the Bonn Summit in Germany in 2001, followed by the adoption of the new Constitution of Afghanistan in 2003 and the Electoral Law in 2004, affirmative action strategy with a clear and systematic mechanism to improve the status of women in socio-political participation entered the Afghan legal literature. With the passage of time prosperous life of women in Afghanistan required that in this qualitative study the above strategy be represented and narrated from the perspective of the lived experience of women representatives. In this regard, data collection and coding was done in interview with 15 female representatives in person. According to the findings, facilitating competition with men, creating opportunities, productivity of gender diversity, and flexibility in laws indicate the need for women this strategy. The results also showed developing the ability and capability of women. Because the emergence of ability, the acquisition of skills and experience, complement meritocracy, are among the categories that were extracted from the experience of female representatives. What matters is how this strategy is implementation; based on the findings, unequal access, blame, feelings of inferiority, patriarchy, abuse and lack of peace in the interviewees' experience indicated affirmative action challenges to this strategy.