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Iran's First Female Cabinet Member a Setback for Women
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyFirst the good news: On Thursday, the BBC reports that Iran approved its first female cabinet member since the revolution 30 years ago, Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi. The bad news: Dastjerdi is a long-time proponent of sex-segregating medical care, so that Iranian women can only be seen by female doctors -- a move that reduces women's access to medical care, particularly to specialists. In Iran's hotly contested elections this year, opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard (once a political adviser herself to former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami) ...
The Many Faces of Dissent: Women in Iran's Election
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyDonna correctly says that dissent in Iran has been given a new face -- and it's a woman's face. But it would be more accurate to say that dissent in Iran has been given many new faces. Well before the video of Neda Agha Soltan's tragic death spread around the world, images of female protesters -- often young, often in hijab and wearing green armbands or face paint -- were common. It's no coincidence. Women turned out in huge numbers both on the campaign trail and at the polls for Mir Hossein Mousavi. Now it's those same groups of women who have largely been disenfranchised. ...
Zahra Rahnavard: Not Iran's Michelle Obama, But Its Hillary Clinton
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyZahra Rahnavard, wife of Iranian presidential reform candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, is by all accounts a stirring speaker, an energizing personal presence, a respected force in her professional field and someone who enjoys high approval ratings in Iran. For those reasons, many are comparing her to Michelle Obama. But they're looking at the wrong first lady. Zahra Rahnavard is really Iran's Hillary Clinton. ...
Will Iran Get a Feminist First Lady?
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyZahra Rahnavard, the possible new first lady of Iran -- if today's election results favor her husband, ex-prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi's reformist Green Party over incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- has written 15 books, is an accomplished sculptor, was a highly placed political adviser to former reformist President Mohammad Khatami, and, by the way, runs a university. ...
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