78 percent of Iranian women literate
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:53:21
 
Women constitute over 30 percent of the workforce in Iran.

Women literacy rate in Iran has improved over the past 3 decades to reach 78 percent in 2007, from 25 percent in '76 and 76 percent in '97.

      Majority of Iranian Girls Wish They Were Boys

      TEHRAN (Reuters) - Fifty-three percent of Iranian girls interviewed in a
      recent survey said that if they could be born again they would prefer to be
      boys, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

      An Iranian man who recently had a sex change to become a woman finds life so difficult she has been trying to
      reverse the operation.

      Sex change operations are legal in Iran but there are no provisions for would-be transsexuals to test out their
      new identity first.

      Official statistics show suicide rates among women outstrips those of men -- the opposite of Western societies.

Thursday November 01, 2001 08:39 AM EST

                               Afghan Women Uphold Dignity in Islamic Games

                               By Kalyani, OneWorld South Asia

                               Women from Afghanistan (news - web sites) have raised a firm fist against oppression by taking part in
                               the Muslim women’s games in Iran which concluded this week.

                                                                  The Women's Movement of Afghanistan--a body backed by the opposition
                                                                  Northern Alliance fighting the Taliban in the war-torn country--put the Afghan
                                                                  team together for the Third Muslim Women Games, which began in Tehran last
                                                                  week and ended on Tuesday.

                               "The participation of Afghan women in the games underscores the enormous courage and spirit of
                               women in the region," said Syeeda Hamid, convener of the Muslim Women’s Forum in India. "This is
                               their statement to the world about the fiercely-independent nature of the Afghan people."

She was raised in Switzerland and her parents always told her not to do this and that because persian girls don't! Till she went to Iran for a visit and saw what some girls were doing !!! In a party she opened the wrong door to go to a bathroom and witnessed group action!

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TEHRAN, Iran - These days, Iranian women are not even allowed to watch men compete on the soccer field, but 2,000 years ago they could have been carving the boys to pieces on the battlefield.

DNA tests on the 2,000-year-old bones of a sword-wielding Iranian warrior have revealed the broad-framed skeleton belonged to a woman, an archaeologist working in the northwestern city of Tabriz said Saturday.

“Despite earlier comments that the warrior was a man because of the metal sword, DNA tests showed the skeleton inside the tomb belonged to a female warrior,” Alireza Hojabri-Nobari told the Hambastegi newspaper.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Like others who come watch Iran's national soccer team prepare for the World Cup in July, they join in the chants and wave their flags. But these fans are cheering from outside the fence surrounding the field, barred by law from entering because they are women.

On Monday, more than 50 female soccer fans -- from girls to mothers with baby strollers -- pressed against the wobbling chain-link fence, screaming, whistling, and trying to make sense of their exile.