She ###### sexist male colleagues and demands ###### respect. She insisted on a ###### at a recent tribal gathering ###### by white-bearded men in turbans.]]> Koofi came of age after ###### U.S.-led military invasion toppled the ###### Taliban government in 2001. She ###### benefited from 12 years of ######, fitful gains for Afghan women. ###### with U.S. combat troops leaving ###### next year, Koofi and other ###### women worry that their freedoms ###### begin to erode.
"We are ###### a very dangerous period for ######," Koofi says."]]>