Iran's Women

MYTH vs. FACT: Women in Iran - American Iranian Council

By: Research Associate Allyson Socha and Communications Associate Cynthia Markarian MYTH: Women and girls in Iran are treated as second ...

Women's work and education in Iran: lessons from time-use data

This column reports new evidence on how having a college education affects the way that married Iranian women divide their time between domestic work, market ...

Reflecting on Mahsa Amini's Short but Meaningful Life—and the ...

Nasrin Sotoudeh and her husband Reza Khandan are no strangers to brutal and violent government suppression. The two Iranian activists and ...

Why Iran's regime fears women's hair - The Hill

Surveillance cameras dot the landscape of Tehran and other Iranian cities in search of supposed deviants: women who fail to wear the mandatory ...

Woman, Life, Freedom: The Origins of the Uprising in Iran

In March, 1979, urban Iranian women and girls and their male supporters took part in a week of demonstrations in Tehran, beginning on ...

Afghan and Iranian Women are a Force in the Fight for Freedom

It's paramount that the United States and the international community invest more to support female activists. Nowhere is the need greater than ...

Women in Iran fight to break Islamic Republic 'cage' - Atlantic Council

I would die before giving up my values,” roared a woman dressed in white from head to toe in Karaj, west of the capital Tehran. Brandishing her ...

Woman. Life. Freedom: The Heartbeat for Human Rights in Iran

As the global diaspora gathers in peaceful protests over the inhumane death of 22-year-old Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, we're at a historic juncture ...

Unsilenced voices: women's struggle for rights in Iran and Afghanistan

... Iranian government into ending legal discrimination against Iranian women. She has been honoured by the European Union as a 2016 Sakharov ...

Women This Week: Protests in Iran Demand End to Decades of ...

Antigovernment protests erupted in dozens of cities across Iran in response to the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died while in the custody of ...

2023 Democracy Award—Movement: Women of Iran

The September 2022 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody in Iran sparked nationwide protests and gave birth to the Woman, Life, ...

For Iranian Women Who Break the Laws About Their Dress

Collage by Judy Goldstein. In September of 2022, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, died while in the custody of ...

Iran's female morality police lead crackdown on women not wearing ...

Sky News has seen videos showing Iranian women being detained by female members of Iran's morality police in a fresh crackdown on those who ...

How Iran's Woman. Life. Freedom. Movement Shaped a Movement ...

During Amini's funeral, Kurdish women removed their headscarves and chanted in Kurdish, “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” or “Woman, Life, Freedom.” The ...

The Toll of Violence on Women and Youth in Iran | Think Global Health

A "pervasive trauma is seeping through Iran," affecting the mental health of women and children.

Women, Life, Freedom! Why ICRW Stands with the protest ...

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) stands in solidarity and in power with protestors in Iran who have taken to the streets peacefully ...

A year ago, an Iranian woman's death sparked hijab protests. Now ...

Iranian authorities have for months done little to enforce the law on women wearing the mandatory headscarf, but now the country's theocracy ...

Women in Iran: UN report says repression of protesters and ... - CNN

Iran's “repression of peaceful protests” and “institutional discrimination against women and girls” has led to human rights violations, ...

Iranian American Women Elected to Public Office from Across the ...

The letter, signed by Senator Anna Kaplan, the first and only Iranian-American elected to the New York State Legislature, outlines three ...

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Explore the lives of women during the Qajar era (1796-1925) through a wide array of materials from private family holdings and participating institutions.