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"Women’s Rights Are as Mothers"

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Iran Candidate Jalili Says Women’s Rights Are as Mothers
By Ladane Nasseri - 2013-05-30T07:19:31Z

Iranian presidential candidate Saeed Jalili said his nation must defend the rights of women as mothers and resist the approach of Western nations where they are counted as an “economic tool.”

“Women’s core identity lies in motherhood and her role should be defined within that framework, not in an economic context,” Jalili, who’s also Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, told a female audience at a political rally late yesterday.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-30/iran-candidate-jalili-says-women-s-rights-are-as-mothers.html
 
Can't really disagree with not objectifying women. Clever. He's pretty much doing exactly that, but he makes it sound good.
In 2008, he proposed a plan for married women’s working days to be cut by two hours, and by an additional hour with the birth of each child, with no change to salary.
Pretty nice.
 
Yes, very clever.

I always think it's interesting how women can work and attend school in Iran while the country is essentially a theocracy.
 
Evil Eye said:
Yes, very clever.

I always think it's interesting how women can work and attend school in Iran while the country is essentially a theocracy.

"School?"

well....

21 September 2012
More than 30 universities have introduced new rules banning female students from almost 80 different degree courses.

These include a bewildering variety of subjects from engineering, nuclear physics and computer science, to English literature, archaeology and business.

No official reason has been given for the move, but campaigners, including Nobel Prize winning lawyer Shirin Ebadi, allege it is part of a deliberate policy by the authorities to exclude women from education.

"The Iranian government is using various initiatives… to restrict women's access to education, to stop them being active in society, and to return them to the home," she told the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19665615
 
That, pretty much.

However, they have the right to vote and access to (some) higher education, which is a lot less obsessive than some nations.
 
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