Bacha posh (Persian: بچه پوش‎‎, literally "dressed up as a boy") is a cultural practice in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as in Iran, in which some families without sons will pick a daughter to live and behave as a boy. This enables the child to behave more freely: attending school, escorting her sisters in public, and working. Bacha posh also allows the family to avoid the social stigma associated of not having any male children. The issue of Bacha Posh has been highlighted in Jenny Nordberg's book The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan as well as in Iranian movie director Majid Majidi's 2001 film Baran.