Iran has announced plans for a new car designed specially for women.Its features will include automatic transmission, parking and navigation aids and a jack for changing tyres without getting grease on your chador. Iran’s biggest car producer, Iran Khodro, says it will come in a range of feminine colours and interior designs.
Other features are proposed to make it easier for women when they are doing the family shopping or taking their children to school.
If that suggests a degree of sexist stereotyping in Iranian society, it is, just possibly, true.
Despite the fact that Iranian women now make up around 60% of university students, Iranian men have yet to absorb fully the message of equality.
A recent study by an academic from Allameh Tabatabaii University in Tehran found that working Iranian women believed that the domestic chores should be shared more equally.
However, according to the report “their husbands think and act traditionally”.
Indeed, the idea of married men cooking for their wives is viewed in Iran as highly eccentric
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