Iran: 553,000 women expelled from job cycle last year

The latest figures released by the National Statistics Center this fall (2015) indicates that in the year leading to Fall 2015, more than 553,000women have been expelled from the economic cycle...

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: 100,000 women are fired every year

Women’s participation in the job market is 12.4% which has had 1% drop compared to last year,” said Deputy Iranian Labor Minister, Abol-Hassan Firouzabadi. He said every year, 100,000 women are excluded from the job market.

Women’s participation in the world’s job market is 45%.

According to Firouzabadi, women comprise 22% of government employees and 14% of employees in the private sector. Some 2.5 million women are head of households while the total number of employed women in Iran amounts to only 3.1 million. Presently, 87% of working-age women in Iran are economically inactive and half of the economically active women are working in service sectors.

(State-run ISNA news agency, September 25, 2015)