Pertenece al pueblo pastún de la etnia Gailani de Afganistán y madre de seis hijos.^[7]​ Antes de su elección había establecido una cadena de gimnasios en Herat después de la caída de los talibanes.^[3]​^[8]​ Fauzia se ha pronunciado en contra de la violencia contra las mujeres y sobre los matrimonios forzados de niñas. Ella misma se vio obligada a casarse, a los trece años. Fue ampliamente citada después del asesinato de Nadia Anjuman, una joven poeta afgana cuyo esposo fue arrestado por su muerte tras admitir que la golpeó luego de una discusión. El Servicio de Investigación del Congreso describió a Fauzia como una de las representantes independientes cuyo apoyo la administración Hamid Karzai estaba luchando por ganar.^[9]​

1. ↑ «Profile: Herat Profile». Navy Postgraduate School. 2009. 
2. ↑ Homeyra Mokhtarzada. «The Transition Ends and the Work Begins». Ace Project. Consultado el 13 de junio de 2010. «In Herat province, the top vote winner was a woman: Fauzia Gailani. A candidate for the Wolesi Jirga, she won 16,885 votes, or 3.6 percent of the provincial total. A mother of six who started a chain of fitness clubs in Herat after the fall of the Taliban, she has become well known for her rhetoric on equal rights and against child marriage.» 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Kim Barker (6 de noviembre de 2005). «A conservative Afghan city elects a woman». Chicago Tribune. Consultado el 13 de junio de 2010. «Her life started out much like those of other Herat women. At age 13, while she still played with dolls, she was forced to marry a man who was 15 years older. She was his second wife. But after moving to Iran during Afghanistan's wars, Gailani fell in love with sports. She started exercising and worked at a gym for women. When her family moved back to Herat after the Taliban fell, she brought two carloads of equipment to start gyms for women in Herat.» 
4. ↑ M. Ashraf Haidari (27 de octubre de 2005). «Afghanistan's Parliamentary Election Results Confirm Stunning Gains for Women». Eurasianet. Archivado desde el original el 11 de junio de 2011. Consultado el 13 de junio de 2010. «Fauzia Gailani got 17,000 votes in Herat, and Malai Joya got 8,000 votes in Farah. With Shukria of Kabul, these women have emerged as icons of this landmark parliamentary election. They demonstrated that, given the chance, the women of Afghanistan can and will be full players in the reconstruction process of our country.» 
5. ↑ Larry Jay Diamond, Marc F. Plattner (2006). Electoral systems and democracy. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8474-0. Consultado el 13 de junio de 2010. «Female representation was the only area in which SNTV actually proved to have a positive effect. The quota mechanism, which ensured that a total of 68 women were elected (on average two per province), remained largely unchallenged. The fragmenting effect of SNTV helped 19 women -- 8 percent of all MPs -- get elected in their own right without the aid of the affirmative-action mechanisms. In the large Western province of Herat, for example, female candidate Fauzia Gailani out-polled all male candidates, including those backed by local warlords.» 
6. ↑ Homeyra Mokhtarzada (2005). «The Transition ends, and the work begins». Democracy at Large. Consultado el 13 de junio de 2010. «In Herat province, the top vote winner was a woman: Fauzia Gailani. A candidate for the Wolesi Jirg, she won 16,885 votes, or 3.6 percent of the provincial total. A mother of six who started a chain of fitness clubs in Herat after the fall of the Taliban, she has become well known for her rhetoric on equal rights and against child marriage.» 
7. ↑ «Foreign Press Centers». 
8. ↑ Christina Lamb (13 de noviembre de 2005). «Woman poet 'slain for her verse'». Consultado el 13 de junio de 2010. «One of the most surprising results announced earlier in the count was in Herat, where Fauzia Gailani, a female aerobics instructor, topped the polls. The 32-year-old mother of six said she was outraged by Anjuman’s death and was compiling a list of such cases. 'In Islam no one has the right to hit their wife,' she said. 'We hope the government will take action and stop crimes like this.'». 
9. ↑ «"Transición política posconflicto y panorama político"». 

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