Assaults Against Women Research Paper

FROM HEAD TO TOE Can you believe that you deserve to be assaulted because of your gender? Besides, being sexual harassment and rape victims, at least, 2000 women were executed after the Revolution in Islamic Republic of Iran, between 1981 and 1990 and the youngest was just 10 years old. They lost their gained rights and got an inequality in the society along the Revolution. Especially after divorcing, they were losing all their rights that marriage gave to them. Although the Revolution’s slogan was “Independence and Freedom”, the women were treated as a second class citizen. Today, it is more hopefully than the past. 65% of university students are female, but ‘Iran has achieved full independence, but its people lack political freedom.’ Said Shirin Ebadi, who is a Nobel prized lawyer. She was a judge during The Revolution and degraded after it as her other female colleagues, and we can say that there were/ are several reasons that underlies these and also several causes and effects. …show more content…
There are several positive changes on the women’s rights, but the mentality has never changed. If you are a woman and you go out, you deserve these assaults, maybe rape. They are not able to avoid the men’s leer. Iran is an Islamic country, this is true, and assaults keep going against the women who wear hijab in this Islamic Republic. However, to be an Islamic country is not an excuse and actually it is not related to the religion. It is related to the interpretation of the religion and ignorance. That is why, no one can say that education doesn’t have a significant role on these