I can mention thousands of successful Iranian women in all over the world in the highest positions of the international organizations like Anousheh Ansari (the co-founder, chairwoman, and CEO of Prodea systems and the first woman that fly to the international space station) , Shirin Ebadi ( founder of Defenders of human rights center in Iran and awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2003 and she listed as one of the most powerful women in the world) and lots of strong and powerful Iranian women . However, they make up about half of the population and more than 60% of the university entrances are women so why we have just 2% of them in the workplaces especially governmental enterprises.

Before  the revolution of Iran, there was an upward trend in the participation of women. Unfortunately, after that, because the government’s constitution is based on the religion so it makes lots of strict rules which it leads to restriction for women. For instance, wearing hijab is one of the restrictions which prevent them from working in lots of places and splitting up the males and females in the organizations .The males and females in Iran don’t have equal rights . As we know , diversity is one of the crucial points in a company in terms of genders , cultures , ages . In my point of view, One of the main reason is because we are engaged in our traditional and inherent attitudes. Most of the people are not believing the presence of women in a number of jobs like to be a bus driver or being president. These ways of thoughts and attitudes gradually influenced the women as well so they don’t have the enough self-confidence to express their real power and their skills, especially where the co-workers or clients are predominantly men. At first, this problem must be solved which is the self-esteem of the women from themselves, Unfortunately, the current government persists with policies against the regular attendance of women in the society. Therefore , they are trying to persuade them that they are better in managing their family and growing children and it is an instrumental view of women . Females bring lots of advantages in the workplaces such as diversity and multidimensional interest, stronger ethics, great management and analyzing skills and team spirit and so on and so forth . Furthermore, women are great in attracting and persuading consumers so they have better communication skills.
So, I feel sorrowful as we are not able to benefit from the maximum capacity of women’s talents and skills in my country.
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