It is not that simple. Women can vote in Iran and be elected, with 51% of population they even have voting majority. There are 6% women PMs, clerics have less seats.
Anyone reasonably well educated on the MidEast region realizes that Iranian women are relatively well off. Certainly light years ahead of their arab counterparts. Better educated, more free and as you, rightfully, point out, they hold more positions in the government of the Islamic Republic than clerics do.
But none of that is the issue. The question is whether or not this stricture violates human rights?
I know from experience that if you ask an Iranian woman if she wants to wear a hijab, she will most likely say "yes". (I'm told that the fuss to do your hair every morning is something most women would just as soon do without.) The thing is women should have the right to say "no", even if most would never use that right. That's the issue. Not whether or not women would want to go without a hijab, or whether or not Iranian women are more free.
It doesn't seem that simple to me, though. The current regime is in place due to a coup; I have doubts that you'd be able to get much done for women post-1979 without paramilitary support.
bilbo0s|9 years ago
But none of that is the issue. The question is whether or not this stricture violates human rights?
I know from experience that if you ask an Iranian woman if she wants to wear a hijab, she will most likely say "yes". (I'm told that the fuss to do your hair every morning is something most women would just as soon do without.) The thing is women should have the right to say "no", even if most would never use that right. That's the issue. Not whether or not women would want to go without a hijab, or whether or not Iranian women are more free.
jkot|9 years ago
My point is that many women voted for those rules. This problem could be solved in a single election.
microcolonel|9 years ago
What would I know, though? :- \