Blog 8:In Iran, Keep your eye on jump in female literacy

Summary:

Ever since the end of the Pahlavi movement in Iran, (which was a movement that empowered Iranian women that allowed them to not have to wear the veils, and even allowed miniskirts on university campuses) Iranian women have been oppressed and have been given little to no freedoms. The veils have become mandatory again, and the government even instituted segregated gender schools. Despite all the efforts to oppress women, they have broken through the struggle and have found a way to get their voices heard. The separated schools ended up benefiting females because of the way that they were educated about empowerment and identity, along with an increase in knowledge about math, science, and literacy. This increase in knowledge caused the population at the end of the revolution (which was 35% female) to crease dramatically to 80% females by 2007. With their new found knowledge, these Iranian women took the passages out of the Quran that had previously been used to oppress them and make them feel inferior, and used them as empowering passages to make their voices of oppression be heard.

Analysis:

Women all over the world have been trying to overcome oppress for hundreds of years. Because Iran is commonly thought of as a country that oppresses it's women more so than most countries, this is a huge feat for the Iranian women. The author of this article was Nina Ansary, an Iranian women who lived in Iran during the Pahlavi movement. She was asked to leave Iran at the end of that movement, and has not returned. She wrote this article to get the point across that women of her country were fighting oppression with the same tactics that had always been used to oppress them. I like the way that she tied in the educational feats that women overcome, and actually ending up benefiting from. It's really important to know that women have used tactics intended to oppress them and turned them around to positive things that have helped them. Ansary did a great job of getting this point across in this article.


http://womensenews.org/story/education/140329/in-iran-keep-your-eye-jump-in-female-literacy#.Uz7j4hK9KK0