Iran

Woman discrimination

A brief history of women's rights in Iran Sixty years ago, women in Iran could wear miniskirts. Today,
they are punished for showing their hair. How did Iran get here? Here's a brief history of women's
rights in Iran.

1. A striking feature of the current widespread and continuing protests in Iran, which are pushing the
country to the brink of revolution, is they were triggered by violence against a woman. It was women
who came out into the streets with the slogan,"Women, Life, Freedom. One can add that, bizarrely,
when it comes to the use of brutality to crush these protests, the regime is treating men and women
equally.

2. Women, like their male counterparts, have paid dearly for demanding an end to violence, for the
rule of law rather than of religion, for equality under the law, and for economic opportunity for all,
not just the men in power. So far, at least 27 women have been killed, and a large number of women
have been arrested. According to CNN, women and young girls, as well as men, are being physically
abused and raped - another horror account of what they face in prison simply for protesting
peacefully on city streets

3.it is horrible to think that your husband has to give you, permission to get a pasapor or leave the
country but you end up assuming that the new scenaho ne faces is even more "humiliating" you
husband is not able to give this authorization has to be done by your father-in- low or, failing that,
your husbands siblings. In her case she has neither one hor the Other the only Sassibie option that she
is considering now is the husband of her partners older sisters-in-law never saw with good eves that
she was an independent woman who traveled continuously

Equality and non-discrimination is built from the family, where responsibilities and benefits are
shared and equitable, for the benefit of all its members
From before birth, our family and society in general begin to formulate a series of expectations, such
as the clothes or color with which they will dress us, the decoration of the room, the toys that we will
have available, as well as the behaviors or "rules" that we must follow depending on whether we are
girls or boys.
These behaviors and attitudes learned during our childhood in the family space reinforce the gender
roles that define what it is to be a woman and a man. An example of this is that men have been
taught not to cry or show weakness, while women have been prepared to perform household chores
and be helpful.
"The family is analyzed as an area for the exercise of individual rights, but at the same time it is the
space in which members of unequal and asymmetrical power interact." Irma Arriagada, Commission
Economic for Latin America and the Caribbean.
These gender roles and stereotypes generate male behaviors of men towards women, since they are
educated with the idea that women are "weak" sex, generating relationships of superiority, power
and control over them that, although sometimes not evident, have an impact on the way in which
women and men relate and interact with each other.