Women, Work, and Ideology in the Islamic Republic

Bibliographic Data

ID8965859
AuthorsVal Moghadam (New York University, corresponding author)
Year1988
Volume20
Issue2
Pages221-243
Publication date1988-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743800033948
OpenAlexW1995546790
LanguageEN
Citations received36
References cited18

This paper is a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Islamic ideology and female employment in Iran today. I examine the Islamic regime's ideology regarding women's roles (as well as the inconsistencies within it) and contrast it with women's employment patterns. I also compare the employment patterns today with those before the Revolution. The paper shows that much of the initial rhetoric discouraging female employment and attempting to impose an ideology of domesticity has not been successful. Although labor participation rates have declined for women, they have declined even more for men. The female share of the urban labor force has not altered, and government employment for women is actually higher today than it was before the Revolution. This paper suggests a discrepancy between ideological prescriptions and economic imperatives

Government (linguistics · Ideology · Islam · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Work (physics · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law

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