Comparative study of Gender Discrimination in Achieving Social Role and Status in Iranian Legal System in Before and After of Islamic Revolution

This research is aimed comparative study of gender discrimination in before and after Islamic revolution in Iran. It totally captures the time intervals -between 1961 and 2011- as to make possible the analysis of social, political and economic status of discrimination and gender discrimination in different layers of Iranian legal system. Building upon the research hypothesis, in the year 1961 - the beginning of Iran’s modernization era and the White Revolution in the second Pahlavi period - women’s social, political and economic status was subject to many changes to their benefit. And it was still revitalized in a new direction after the Islamic Revolution of Iran, which brought about religious interpretations and cultural considerations in social, political and economic status of women. Based on the Gender Equity Indexes of 1961 to 2011, women's participation in the fields of economic, political and legal justice (men and women) in Iran's civil code faced an upward trajectory. Although at the rise of the Islamic republic revolution instabilities experienced as a result of a change in the political relations, the expansion and improvement of gender equity faced a temporary downturn, but in the next years, women’s participation in social, economic and office affairs showed considerable improvement. However, any effort in the field of political law for clarification of the presence or absence of women (an instance of discrimination) brings to the fore the cultural issues and the executors' mentality and interpretations much before facing the preventive laws. This is a documentary research, functional in objectives and library data collection through law texts.