Gender+Expectations+Between+Iran+and+Petropolis.+Gustavo+Sanchez

=The Bond's Of Iran's Women Relationship=

Iran: Disordered Liberty has previously commented regarding this “very special respect” Iran generally holds for women: > Spousal rape is not illegal, and domestic violence is not specifically prohibited. > A man may escape punishment for killing a wife caught in the act of adultery if he is “certain” she was a consenting partner. At least 50 such “honor killings” were reported in 2008. > Although a husband may divorce his wife for any reason, a wife has the right to divorce only if her husband signs a contract granting that right, if he cannot provide for his family, or if he is a drug addict, insane, or impotent. > Women cannot serve in many high-level political positions or as judges, except as consultant or research judges without the power to impose sentences. > The government enforces gender segregation in most public spaces, including medical care, and prohibits women from mixing openly with unmarried men or men not related to them. Women must ride in a reserved section on public buses and enter public buildings, universities, and airports through separate entrances. > > The penal code provides that if a woman appears in public without an appropriate hijab, she can be sentenced to lashings and fined.  Despite International Women's Day celebrations today, women in Iran still struggle for basic rights. The country's conservative authoritiesforbid women from simple activities such as watching the World Cup qualifying soccer game live in a stadium.More prominent are restrictions on their legal and civil rights.Women in Iran can inherit only half as much of their parents' wealth as their brothers.Their husbands can marry more than one woman, and automatically get custody of children after a divorce. Women can be jailed or hanged for defying the dress code, and they can be stoned to death for adultery.Since the 1979 overthrow of the Shah, the fundamentalist governments dominated by clerics have stressed the traditional role of women and restricted their civil rights and participation in political activities.The changes of women's conditions are very minor, only about surface things. But the limitations on basic rights and the legislation infrastructure haven't been changed at all Iranian women are better-educated and more politically sophisticated than many of their Muslim neighbors. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization reports that the literacy rate of Iranian women is 70 percent, compared with an average 46.2 percent in the Middle East.A large number of Iranian women hold professional jobs in journalism, medicine or law, or become human-rights activists. Up to 70 percent of university students in Iran are female.