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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.
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. [100] Many Iranian women, including Jaleh Amouzgar, Eliz Sanasarian, Janet Afary, and Alenush Terian have been influential in the sciences.
Fateme Asadi (1960 – 1984), first Iranian 'martyr' women whose body was found during post-war explorations. Ladan and Laleh Bijani (1974–2003), conjoined twins; Qudsiyyih Khanum Ashraf (1889–1976), Bahá'i teacher and midwife; Raheleh Tahmasbi, women sea captain from Iran and West Asia.
Nasrin is also a member of Iran Cinema House, where she mentors both men and women. Sogol Kheirandish, 30, dancer Sogol performs flow art at a park in northern Tehran on Jan. 20, 2022.
From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the country.
A new bill before Iran's parliament could make penalties for women even more serious. It calls for fines of up to 360 million Iranian rials ($720) and prison sentences for women without the headscarf.
Shadi Ghadirian was born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran.After graduating high school in 1988, Ghadirian studied art and photography at Azad University in Tehran (now Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch), under Bahman Jalali and received her B.A. in photography.
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.