Women's rights in Iran have fluctuated over the last century.
Currently, women in Iran make up 12% of the Iranian parliament. There also has been many victories in the courtroom for women who are looking for divorce. Crimes against women are taken very seriously, and enforced with harsh punishment. Just recently a man got a lashing sentence for sexually harassing a women. Also many women hold positions such as a taxi driver and law enforcement positions. One Iranian women was quoted as,"When there is equal opportunity, we have proven the women can in fact be superior to men, unfortunately this is not something our men readily accept".
But women are still being denied into popular soccer stadiums. Just recently, at a film awards ceremony, an actress kissed the forehead of a male director. She caused serious controversy and her career will never be the same.
A women has never served as a president or a judge in Iran. After a divorce, a women can never gain full guardianship of her children, under any circumstance.
President George W. Bush singled out several countries that still suppress women's rights, among them was: Iran, North Korea and Burma.
Iran has covered some ground when it comes to women's rights, but we remain to have inequality for women there. We still have a long way to go.
1 comment:
This is actually pretty true, and I would know this because I'm Iranian. Women's rights are increasing, but I feel that it will never be to the same level that western cultures have set.
Women in Iran are free to do basically anything, but then there are always exceptions under a theocracy.
Women can be lawyers, engineers, doctors, CEOs, and as you mentioned also hold political positions. However, when it comes to politics in the Iranian parliament, women can really never go beyond the mullas.
In my view the problem with the country is its domination by fundamentalists. Fundamentalism is no place for the 21st century. Any resort to religious concepts is completely counterproductive to the advancement of the human race, and also toward the progress of a true republic. The current condition of Iran truly displays this concept in its human rights violations, and other fundamentalist ventures.
This is why I think separation of church and state is such and important aspect of the American political system. That is why every time a religious ideology comes along to affect laws in congress I become extremely angered. America prides itself in being the true democracy of the world, and that is why they should always act completely and indefinitely from any sort of religious affiliations.
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