"talibanization of Iraq"

" ... women’s well-being and security have sharply deteriorated since the fall of his regime. ..."

"his", meaning Saddam Hussein. And this (the article,not the picture. The picture came from here.) came from Ms Magazine. Could this be true?

from Ms Magazine:

"Throughout much of recent history, Iraq was one of the most progressive countries in the Middle East for women. Saddam Hussein and his Baath party encouraged women to go to school and enter the workforce. The constitution drafted in 1970 guaranteed women the right to vote, attend school, own property and run for political office.

The 1959 Law of Personal Status—which came into being thanks to a mobilization by Iraqi women after the end of British colonial rule—gave women equal rights to divorce, restricted polygamy, prohibited marriages under age 18 and ensured that men and women had the same inheritance rights.
... According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in 1987 approximately 75 percent of Iraqi women were literate; by the end of 2000 that percentage had dropped to less than 25 percent."

Please read

this story from Ms Magazine about the decline of women's rights in Iraq.