Iranian Women: Demographic timebomb

Rising up & pushing through gender block

touchIRAN.com: In Iran, women have made remarkable strides in education in the last decades — 65 percent of college undergraduates are female and 70 percent of graduate students are enrolled in medicine. Yet legally, women cannot travel freely without the permission of a male relative and face formidable obstacles when divorcing their husbands. We explore the tensions between the expectations of many highly educated young Iranian women and the realities of their lives. video credit: worldfocus.org


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15-Sep-2009
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faryarm

Is'nt it ironic?

by faryarm on Fri Sep 18, 2009 06:46 PM PDT

Is'nt it ironic?

That the wife of the First PM of the IR should use a Bahai Quote?

lets remain hopeful that they really mean it..

best

faryar


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yolanda

Thank you, Faryarm, for the beautiful quote!

by yolanda on Wed Sep 16, 2009 06:57 PM PDT

"The world of humanity is possessed of two wings: the male and the female. So long as these two wings are not equivalent in strength, the bird will not fly."

I recall Mousavi' wife mentioned the similar analogy during the campaign.

thanks,

yolanda


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capt_ayhab

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by capt_ayhab on Wed Sep 16, 2009 09:57 AM PDT

Every painful progress and stride Iranian women have made been in-spite of IR's systematic and brutal oppression.

 

 

-YT 


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faryarm

"... humanity is possessed of two wings; the male and female.."

by faryarm on Wed Sep 16, 2009 09:10 AM PDT

It should be interesting for Iranians to know that the following spiritual principle was first given to Iran and Iranians in the late Nineteenth Century;well before the rise of womens movements in the West. 

 

"The world of humanity is possessed of two wings: the male and the female. So long as these two wings are not equivalent in strength, the bird will not fly.

Until womankind reaches the same degree as man, until she enjoys the same arena of activity, extraordinary attainment for humanity will not be realized; humanity cannot wing its way to heights of real attainment. When the two wings . . . become equivalent in strength, enjoying the same prerogatives, the flight of man will be exceedingly lofty and extraordinary." [6]

//www.bahai.us/two-wings 

Please see the full article

//www.bahai.us/two-wings

 

faryar 


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XerXes

Down with current Islamic establishment of Iran

by XerXes on Wed Sep 16, 2009 08:04 AM PDT

Fvck the Islamic Establishment of Iran. We have dropped so low. we had so many dreams and now have to be happy that our women drive race cars?
Man if Shah was here, we would be discovering space by now and our women would be our best scientists. I am so angry that i wish i could just shoot and kill khamenei and his gang.


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MiNeum71

Come on, American Dream,

by MiNeum71 on Wed Sep 16, 2009 03:16 AM PDT

The second pic of Shah's Mom was taken, when she was over 80 years old. Do you know anyone pretty at that age? ;)

 


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American Dream

Census lady is incorrect

by American Dream on Tue Sep 15, 2009 09:02 PM PDT

The Census lady said that before the Iranian Revolution women were judged on their looks.  The women's good looks would lead to better treatment.  That is not an absolute truth.  Has the census lady ever seen Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's mother?

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadj_ol-Molouk

By the way, that photo of her is a good photo of her.

this is another photo of the Shah's mother:

//www.flickr.com/photos/19009781@N05/25969389...

Interesting to note:

The Shah's mother was ethnicly Azerbaijani.  Iranian Azerbaijani women, especially those from Urumia are usually attractive.  The Shah's mother must have been an ugly Azari, which seldomly happens to be the case for Iranian Azari wome.


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yolanda

It sounded like

by yolanda on Tue Sep 15, 2009 06:02 PM PDT

It sounded like the people being interviewed were not allowed to speak freely! Their answers are pretty predictable! It is super sad that girls are not allowed to enter soccer stadium, not even in the separate (segregated) sections! It is no fun at all. Boooooring!

yolanda


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BIKAR

insalting to older educated women

by BIKAR on Tue Sep 15, 2009 05:14 PM PDT

this is typical of Islam fascist commentary, that before revolution only pretty women would be educated and had jobs, and all the ugly chadories where hookers then, zanikeh ebtekar lived in usa for total of over 8 years in Philadelphia area, her father received his degree from university of Pennsylvania, and all this time what was her maman joon was doing, get off of it, I am tired of all the bull sh..t credit it has been given to Islamic movement bunch of b.s.


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