“The Islamic Emirate doesn’t want women to be victims” Samangani said, using the militants’ term for Afghanistan. “They should be in government structure according to Shariah law.”
He added: “The structure of government is not fully clear, but based on experience, there should be a fully Islamic leadership and all sides should join.”
Pretty sure they also did not expect to win so quickly
While I think a lot of it is #2, fundamentalists of patriarchal religions will often cloak repressive ideals under a line of "oh we're actually the real feminists and our beliefs are liberating for women". And they often genuinely believe this. Growing up around fundamentalist Evangelicals, I heard this line all the time. Check out Evangelical Twitter and see all the women talking about how "Biblical headship" is good actually. Wouldn't be surprised if something like that is going on here.
The old "we're protecting women by keeping them out of the workforce and giving them shopping money (as long as they fill the role of homemaker)" routine.