Iran: Women suffer from numerous economic problems

Iran: Women suffer from numerous economic problems

Women economic problems

Women and girls in our society,especially university graduates, suffer doubly from problems in economic and employment arena,” asserted an Iranian cultural activist.

Mohammad Rasoul Mehnatfar talked to an ILNA reporter in Kermanshah (western Iran) about problems of women. He noted, “Compared to men, women enjoy far less social and political privileges in the cities of Gilan Gharb, Sarpol Zahab and Qasr-e Shirin and are deprived of many of their inalienable rights.”

Mehnatfar added, “Women’s capabilities and powers are completely forgotten in economic activities.”

(State-run ILNA news agency, December 28, 2015)

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They have also granted little opportunity to women's employment by government in the Employment Exam.

Some 8,000 people will be attracted by this exam, but based on the instructions given by Rouhani, from the 2800 job opportunities provided by this year's exam this June, 2284 jobs are exclusive for men, 500 are common for both women and men and there are only 16 jobs exclusively for women.

Iran: 800,000 women lost their jobs

Ahmad Masjed Jame'i, an Iranian regime official said, "The result of past work shows 800,000 women have lost their jobs. This is at a time when the number of single mothers have significantly increased. Politicians have made a decision to manage the rise in the number of children, and this has led to the decrease of women's employment."

State-run ILNA news agency – September 7, 2015

Iran: 800,000 women lost their jobs

Iran regime intensifies suppression of women and gender apartheid

Iranian women are force to wear mandatory Hijab under the mullahs rule.

suppression of women

The Iranian regime parliament is deliberating on a scheme dubbed “protecting hijab and chastity” in order to ramp up the atmosphere of terror in the society and to intensify suppression of women in particular. Most of the articles of this 13-article legislation that was in general ratified by regime’s parliament last October aims at limiting women’s employment and imposing still further pressure and suppression of women on the mullahs-fabricated pretext of “mal-veiling.