I’m not saying it’s an equal society for women but…
Illiteracy among women has been on a decrease since 1970, when it was 54 percent, to the year 2000 when it was 17.30 percent.
Iranian female education went from a 46 percent literacy rate, to 83 percent
According to a UNESCO world survey, at the primary level of enrollment, Iran has the highest female-to-male ratio in the world among sovereign nations, with a girl-to-boy ratio of 1.22: 1.00
According to UNESCO data from 2012, Iran has more female students in engineering fields than any other country in the world.
Women participate more in the workplace (still far from equal). Women’s workforce participation rate went from 9.1 percent in 1996 to 14 percent in 2004 to 31.9 in 2009.
I personally think the US and Iran have more alignment than the US and Saudi Arabia. True, the Saudis are trying to modernize but women could drive and vote (even if the vote is a farce) in Iran well before Saudi Arabia. Iran also has a relatively young population which is less opposed to Westernism. Not condoning the authoritarian government. Every time the Iranian people have an uprising I hope they can finally pull it off.
A religious state is a funny thing. There’s a pretty fuzzy line between legality and cultural taboos. I mean, the place has a president and a supreme religious leader. A religious mandate is almost the same as a law in these kinds of conditions, but like with everything, everywhere, Iran is a big place and I’m sure it varies a lot by region and neighborhood.
According to the article technically women can’t get motorcycle licenses in Iran, but according to the woman in the article she hasn’t been harassed due to that, so I’m not sure how it works in practice.
So, with luck, by 2035 they’ll be back to where they were in 1973?
[This also goes for the USA]
I’m not saying it’s an equal society for women but…
Illiteracy among women has been on a decrease since 1970, when it was 54 percent, to the year 2000 when it was 17.30 percent.
Iranian female education went from a 46 percent literacy rate, to 83 percent
According to a UNESCO world survey, at the primary level of enrollment, Iran has the highest female-to-male ratio in the world among sovereign nations, with a girl-to-boy ratio of 1.22: 1.00
According to UNESCO data from 2012, Iran has more female students in engineering fields than any other country in the world.
Women participate more in the workplace (still far from equal). Women’s workforce participation rate went from 9.1 percent in 1996 to 14 percent in 2004 to 31.9 in 2009.
I personally think the US and Iran have more alignment than the US and Saudi Arabia. True, the Saudis are trying to modernize but women could drive and vote (even if the vote is a farce) in Iran well before Saudi Arabia. Iran also has a relatively young population which is less opposed to Westernism. Not condoning the authoritarian government. Every time the Iranian people have an uprising I hope they can finally pull it off.
This is a social expectations thing rather than a legality thing, so not really.
Isn’t it a legal thing in Iran?
A religious state is a funny thing. There’s a pretty fuzzy line between legality and cultural taboos. I mean, the place has a president and a supreme religious leader. A religious mandate is almost the same as a law in these kinds of conditions, but like with everything, everywhere, Iran is a big place and I’m sure it varies a lot by region and neighborhood.
It comes down to the mullahs who walk around enforcing rules arbitrarily like beard and pubic hair length.
Pubic hair length? Are you joking?
According to the article technically women can’t get motorcycle licenses in Iran, but according to the woman in the article she hasn’t been harassed due to that, so I’m not sure how it works in practice.
USA is still getting blonder.