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Women in Iran; General Statistics; Maternal mortality (per 100,000) 21 (2010) Women in parliament: ... [70] Iran ranked 10th in terms of female literacy in the 1970s ...
The Iranian Women's Rights Movement (Persian: جنبش زنان ایران), is the social movement for women's rights of the women in Iran. The movement first emerged after the Iranian Constitutional Revolution in 1910, the year in which the first women's periodical was published by women.
The revolution resulted in an unprecedented opening for Iranian women into politics (mostly through demonstrations and voting), [189] and some authors argue that this had a lasting impact on Iranian women's political participation and role in the public sphere. [181]
8 March 1979 protest in Tehran 8 March 1979 protest in Tehran. On International Women's Day on March 8, 1979, a women's march took place in Tehran in Iran.The march was originally intended to celebrate the International Women's Day, but transformed into massive protests against the changes taking place in women's rights during the Iranian revolution, specifically the introduction of mandatory ...
A few weeks after it began, the scale and intensity of Iran’s uprising are tangibly diminishing an already weak regime in Tehran.. Women, who for more than four decades bore the brunt of the ...
In 1962, Iranian women given the right to vote with the approval of a bill by the Cabinet of Iran. Under the bill, women would be allowed to be candidates and run in elections. But a few months later, the bill was rejected due to disagreements over several paragraphs of the bill between Iranian Islamic scholars and government officials. [8] [9]
LONDON — Protests led by women have erupted across Iran following the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody. Mahsa Amini, from Kurdistan, was visiting Tehran on Sept. 13 when she was ...
Women in Iran "still live in a system that relegates them to second-class citizens", according to the UN. An Iranian woman without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, walks in a street in Tehran ...