Feminist Views and the Urban Iranian Women Prospects

Feminism tries to change the social structure, just like any other social movement. Feminism has gone trough many changes and evolutions. But the common point among all different Feminist views is that power has always been unequally distributed among men and women and this has led to the supremacy of men over women so that the knowledge and the current women’s rights has been written by and based on this supremacy. Feminism is to organize women in many countries with the help of multilateral institutions to fight against male supremacy and to empower and advance the world’s women and to re-examine all schools of knowledge and to reveal the extent to which they ignore or distort gender. However, this field study on the Iranian women residents in over 30 cities, from university educated to semi-illiterate, wealthy to poor, old to young, government employee to jobless and from married to single, shows that most Iranian women, regardless of their different tendencies of fundamentalism, reformism and secularism, lacked any political activity and even any notable and satisfactory social experience. They mostly dislike political parties and groupings even the ones run by women or for women; and if there was any trend towards the social activities, it would be unorganized and unbiased from gender point of view. Nevertheless, the common characteristic of the urban Iranian women is their critical position against a patriarchal system cast in both public and private life with regardless their private or public institutions being religious or secular