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A woman is required by Iranian law to have the permission on her husband before she can leave the country or obtain a passport. In response to this, many Iranian women created a protest called "Women's right to travel" which has garnered over 50,000 signatures. Women in Iran have little, if any, autonomy or rights compared to men in Iran. [82]
Head of government Assumed Left 1 Farrokhroo Parsa: Minister of Education: 1968: 1971: New Iran Party: Amir Abbas Hoveida: 2 Mahnaz Afkhami: Minister without portfolio for Women's Affairs 1976 1978 Resurgence Party: Jamshid Amouzegar: 3 Masoumeh Ebtekar: Head of Department of Environment: 1997 2005 Islamic Iran Participation Front: Mohammad ...
The Women's Cultural Centre is an organization founded in the 1990s by Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani and Parvin Ardalan and has been a center for forming opinions, analyzing and documenting women's issues in Iran. [38] Since 2005, the organization has published Iran's first online magazine on women's rights, Zanestan, with Ardalan as its editor.
Nor has the killing of at least 400 protesters and arrests of more than 20,000 people, according to an Iranian women’s group. The fact that these protests have persisted speaks to the people’s ...
Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling is a 2007 by Hamideh Sedghi, published by Cambridge University Press. The historical period covered by the book stems from the early 20th century to circa 2007. There are three parts, with each having biographical data on key women.
The Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran is a protest movement launched in September 2022 after the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, a young Iranian woman who was arrested by the morality police for not wearing her hijab properly. The movement demands the end of compulsory hijab laws and other forms of discrimination and oppression against women ...
Women in Iran were granted the right to vote in 1963. [55] They were first admitted to Iranian universities in 1937. [56] Since then, several women have held high-ranking posts in the government or parliament. Before and after the 1979 revolution, several women were appointed ministers or ambassadors.
In the total 11 terms of the Parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Islamic Consultative Assembly), 78 women have won 111 seats in various terms. Some of these women were subsequently disqualified by the Guardian Council , some failed to win the necessary votes to re-enter parliament, some were imprisoned or left Iran, and others are still ...