Under the Shah, many women in Iran gained rights as women. Yet, thirty years ago, during the Islamic Revolution, women’s rights were lost and pushed back. An Iranian female lawyer, Shirin Ebadi, speaks about how she had her rights stripped away from her because of the Islamic Republic. Shirin Ebadi believes that any hope for the future lies with the younger generation of women.
Before the Islamic Republic took over, people in Iran wanted nothing but liberty and independence. Yet, what they received was totally different. Although, the Iranian people did the independence that they wanted, the freedom that they sought did not come. In years before the Islamic Republic took over, women had rights to education and to uphold jobs of importance and power. Yet, within the first five months, the Revolutionary Council striped women of the rights that they had obtained in the earlier years.
Shirin Ebadi speaks out about the effects the Revolutionary Council had on her. Ebadi was a judge, yet a few months after the revolution, it became illegal for women to be a judge under Islamic ruling. So, Ebadi was forced to be demoted to a clerk. Many women’s rights were taken away like Shirin Ebadi and caused women to take a step back under the Islamic ruling.
I think it is terrible how women could be judges and in positions of power, and then all of a sudden be told it was illegal. Not only was Shirin Ebadi not allowed to be a judge, but she was literally stripped of her title. She had worked hard in school and in life in order to obtain the position she had. Then, because of the Islamic revolution, men were empowered and women lost a lot of their rights.
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