Before even taking a seat, Afghanistan’s newly-appointed deputy women’s minister Hosna Jalil plunges immediately into why she recently refused a job. The role would have continued her participation in Afghanistan’s security sector, where until recently she was a deputy interior minister. Jalil was the first woman elevated to such a high-ranking position in the ministry responsible for law enforcement, in a country approaching two decades at war. But the job, as a senior advisor to the chief minister, was a box-ticking exercise in terms of women’s inclusion, she says, stripping her of the ability to continue work that delivered tangible change.