Women are rarely promoted to high positions, and despite their relatively high levels of education, they make up only 14 percent of government employees.
Mahboobeh Abbasgholizadeh, a feminist who was jailed for a month last fall, apparently for her activities though no formal charges were announced, said, "Women's rights will be fulfilled only when the constitution changes."
A group of women activists forced their way into the Azadi Stadium to watch a soccer game between Iran and Bahrain last Wednesday for the first time since the Islamic revolution banned women from watching games at stadiums. They carried signs that read, "My right is also human rights," and "Freedom, justice and gender equality."
"It wasn't that the security was not letting us into the stadium because of an order," said Parastoo Dokoohaki, one the women who was at the protest. "Every single one of them believed it was inappropriate for women to watch the game from up close."
Authorities were forced to allow the women in for the second half of the game after Abbasgholizadeh's leg was crushed under the gate.
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