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Iranian women at the first female university included Mehrangiz Manouchehrian (senator), Shams ol-Moluk Mosahab (senator) and Bardrolmolouk Bamdad. Formal education for women in Iran began in 1907 with the establishment of the first primary school for girls. [1]
The culture of education for women was established by the time of the revolution so that even after the revolution, large numbers of women entered civil service and higher education, [24] and, in 1996, 14 women were elected to the Islamic Consultative Assembly.
Iranian women rights activists determined education is a key for the country's women and society; they argued giving women education was best for Iran because mothers would raise better sons for their country. [96] Many Iranian women, including Jaleh Amouzgar, Eliz Sanasarian, Janet Afary, and Alenush Terian have been influential in the sciences.
The Women's Organization of Iran was a non-profit grassroots organization working mainly through volunteers. Its goals were to encourage women's education for change, to work towards securing economic independence for women, and at the same time to remain within the spirit of Islam and the cultural traditions of the nation.
The university, founded by Queen Farah Pahlavi in 1964, began as a private institution under the title of the Higher Educational Institute For Girls with 90 students. After the Iranian revolution, the university attained public status, and was renamed Mahboubeh Mottahedin after an Iranian Revolutionary who was killed prior to the 1979 revolution.
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 ...
Iranian women educators (1 C, 15 P) Pages in category "Women's education in Iran" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
As a national uprising mounts against the Islamic Republic, young women wait for deceptively simple things, like the ability to wear their hair uncovered. For one writer, spending a month with his ...