One of the worst things about women’s right in Iran is the huge difference between men’s and women’s right in different cases.
As you know, if you kill someone accidentally, you have to pay blood money to the family of the person killed.But in Iran if a woman is killed this money is half the amount that they pay for a man.In other words Killing 2 women = 1 man.
Another example is that women don’t have the right to divorce unless they have really good reasons for example if their husband has a mortal illness or is addicted to drugs they can ask for divorce. However, men can divorce their wives really easily and without any specific reasons and good evidences.
These were some bad point now let’s talk about some good points, A married woman in Iran has some thing called mehrieh (in Persian language) which both families decide about it before the wedding and it is some think like money or anything which can be cheap or really precious and valuable, women have the right to get their mehrieh whenever they want from their husband but usually they request it after they divorce their husband.It is something like alimony but it is agreed on before marriage and also the difference is that even if the couple are married a woman can ask for her money or whatever it is agreed on.
Another important thing that I should mention is that a lot of people in North American countries think that women and even men have a lot of problems in Iran and they are in really hard situations but that’s totally wrong. As a person who has lived in Iran for 17 years I should say that it’s not tough to live in Iran and I really love my country and I know that my country deserves better so that’s why I’m making this blog.
For example I heard in news (CNN) that if a boy and a girl walk together in the street they will get into problem but that is totally wrong because I have hooked up with my girlfriend a lot and nothing happened as well as my other friends. So when we watch something in news we don’t have to believe it we can just search for it at first because there are a lot of women in Iran that they are happy and we are always talking about the unhappy ones.