They have worked in defiance of Iran\u2019s labor laws, which stipulate that \u201cwomen shall not be employed to perform dangerous, arduous or harmful work.\u201d For decades, the government failed to grant fishing licenses to women, depriving them of fuel subsidies and the right to insure their boats. After the women protested, the Fisheries Department agreed two years ago to issue licenses, though each had to be shared by two women, even if they had their own vessels.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s theocracy is strident about its priorities. \u201cThe most important role that a woman can play at any level of science, literacy, information, research, and spirituality is the role of a mother and wife,\u201d Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has decreed. \u201cThis is more important than all her other works.\u201d Within a family, a father or husband is also able to prevent his daughter or wife from working a job that he deems beneath the family\u2019s dignity. Last year, the World Economic Forum\u2019s report on the global gender gap ranked the Islamic Republic among the bottom four in its survey of a hundred and forty-six countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They have worked in defiance of Iran\u2019s labor laws, which stipulate that \u201cwomen shall not be employed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,6481,33953,774,70,16,15,1292],"class_list":{"0":"post-165209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-fishing","10":"tag-fishing-boats","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-women"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114642632419852817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}