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Iranian women have played an important role in gaining international recognition for Iranian art and in particular Iranian cinema. Since the rise of the Iranian New Wave of Persian cinema, Iran has produced record numbers of film school graduates; each year more than 20 new directors, many of them women, make their debut films.
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 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.
The Women, Life, Freedom movement is a protest slogan that affirms that the rights of women are at the center of life and liberty. It is best known in English-language media for its use within the context of Iran and Mahsa Amini protests. [13] The originate of this slogan comes from Kurdish women right movements. [14] [15] [16]
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]
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]
The Democratic Organization of Iranian Women (DAW; Persian: تشکیلات دموکراتیک زنان ایران) is the women's wing of the Tudeh Party of Iran.. Led by Maryam Firouz, [2] it was founded in 1943 as the 'Organization of Iranian Women' (OIW) (Persian: تشکیلات زنان ایران, romanized: Tashkilat-i Zanan-i Iran) and joined Women's International Democratic Federation ...
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Iranian This category exists only as a container for other categories of Iranian women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.