The State Feminism in Iran

The sheer fact of women as part of the political process that is something that you can't put back into the bottle once it's out. So we see Kurdish demands very much calling for a cultural autonomy, reviving many of the demands which which we saw in the Mahabharata Republic of 1946. The social programs enacted by the Islamic Republic include continued sort of emphasis on social welfare and health access to health care access to literacy. These these are programs that help some women sort of improve their quality of life, even as the government is otherwise repressing women in terms of their ability to be part of public life.