The development of Iranian women’s organizations in the second Pahlavi era

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

ziba ghahremani ¹ , aliakbar khedrizadeh ² , mehdi goljan ³

1 - Islamic Azad University, Yadegar Imam Branch
2 - Assistant Professor of Department of History, Yadegar-e- Imam khomini (RAH)Shahre Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor of Department of History, Yadegar-e- Imam khomini (RAH)Shahre Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2021-04-26 Accepted : 2021-09-09 Published : 2021-11-22

Keywords: Second Pahlavi, women’s organizations, women population, women’s suffrage,

Abstract :

Woman presence in tobacco national- religious movement and constitutional movement is the beginning of women activities in different social , cultural and political field. Even though this presence has been presumed very little owing to dominance of religious and tradition – oriented forces at the beginning of the Reza shah’s reign ,but by the implementacion of new policies by Reza shah and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi activities of this brigade got more solidavity in the shape of institutions and women’s organizations and involved wider dimention . how to form and the mode of institutions and women organization’s activity in the second Pahlavi era and its relationship. With the state is the issue that addressed in this study. This research , conducted in the context of historical study and review of sources such as newspapers and books, reveals that the members of institutions and women’s organizations often consisted of educated women who their most trying at first to improve living , educational and health of women and then to fix the legal in equality and obtaining women suffrage. Some of these formations for the benefit of the government. And some also acted along to humour party needs or special population and have influenced the events of that period.