Iranian women wore miniskirts, earned advanced degrees, ran businesses, and lived lives that looked remarkably like their ...

The 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran was pivotal in modern history, reshaping the nation's political, social, and cultural landscape. W omen's contributions were crucial in securing the Revolution’s ...

How a women's group is spurring 'revolution' in Iran, 45 years after the Islamic Revolution. Members of Femme Azadi, a French group, are calling for change in Iran.

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution also in one of his speeches talked about some clerics who opposed political roles of women during the Revolution, saying, “I admit that our magnanimous Imam ...

From the time of revolution in 1979 to the latest reports in 2019, women’s literacy rate rose from 36% to 97.93%; share of women students in higher education rose from 15% to 60%; women’s life ...

Women holding up photographs of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in Arbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, on Sept. 24, 2022. Safin Hamed/AFP via Getty Images ...

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran marked a significant turning point in the country's history, reshaping its political, social, and cultural landscape. Among the many transformations that ...

Women holding up photographs of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on Sept. 24, 2022. (Safin Hamed/AFP via Getty Images) ...

The Islamic Republic’s atrocities have gotten global attention and led to Iran being kicked off the UN commission on women — a win for Iranian-born British actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi.

In the wake of the Women, Life, Freedom movement, one of the most significant political uprisings in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iranian society experienced a period of upheaval.The ...

Women holding up photographs of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in Arbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, on Sept. 24, 2022.