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Women and Work in Iran

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  • Haleh Afshar

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The post‐revolutionary government in Iran presents its approach to women as a template for other Islamic nations to follow. By reconstructing the Koranic laws to meet the demands of time, it argues that Muslim women have secure and eternal independent economic and social rights. This is not so. Since the revolution Iranian women have systematically lost out in the formal labour market. But in recent years they have made a concerted effort to capture the Islamic discourse to contest the legitimacy of some of the formal obstacles placed on their access to paid employment.

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  • Haleh Afshar, 1997. "Women and Work in Iran," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 45(4), pages 755-767, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:polstu:v:45:y:1997:i:4:p:755-767
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.00110
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    1. Nabil Khattab, 2002. "Ethnicity and Female Labour Market Participation: a New Look at the Palestinian Enclave in Israel," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 16(1), pages 91-110, March.
    2. Khaled Mohammed Abu‐Asbah & Sibylle Heilbrunn, 2011. "Patterns of entrepreneurship of Arab women in Israel," Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 5(3), pages 184-198, August.
    3. Nida Kirmani & Isabel Phillips, 2011. "Engaging with Islam to promote women’s rights," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 11(2), pages 87-99, April.
    4. Moeeni, Safoura & Tanaka, Atsuko, 2023. "The effects of labor market opportunities on education: The case of a female hiring ceiling in Iran," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 224(C).

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