This article addresses Iranian women in higher education and their contemporary position in academia in Iran. By systematically reviewing available academic and official databases on women’s positions in academia published online or in print, the question is raised if women’s current position and role in academia is the result of personal choice-making or an existent […]
Iranian sociological streams and trends are, as in some other eastern countries, deeply affected and dominated by western scholars’ thoughts and theories. The centers, which are variable relative to the peripheral contexts, export theories and approaches, in the case of Iran, mostly through translation of American and British books and articles, for which we provide […]
Women have never achieved an equal status as men in the history of scientific work. Historical study of women’s roles and participation in the world and Iran shows that there is not a significant distinction between western women and Iranian women’s status in scientific work until the last decades of the nineteenth century. Before this […]