This post is for everyone trying to use the mantra of saving Muslim women, the tired bullshit the west has used to actually destroy the lives of Muslim women for decades. Here are some statistics specific to Iran.
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This post is for everyone trying to use the mantra of saving Muslim women, the tired bullshit the west has used to actually destroy the lives of Muslim women for decades. Here are some statistics specific to Iran.
LITERACY AMONG WOMEN.
Prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the literacy rate for women under the western-backed Shah was 42%. In less than a decade of the revolution, that number climbed to 98%
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) GRADUATES.
In Iran, ~70% of STEM graduates are women—far exceeding U.S. levels, which stand at 53%)
PROFESSIONAL DOCTORATE.
About 58% of students in Iranian professional doctorate programs are women. In contrast, that number in the U.S. is 56%.
FEMICIDE (homicide of females).
In Iran, the rate of intentional murder of women is 0.59 per 100,000. In the US, that number nearly 4 times higher, at 2.1 per 100,000 women (with stark racial disparities: Black & Native American women: 4.3–4.8 per 100k vs White women: ~1.5 per 100k
PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT.
In Iran, women hold 27% of ministerial-level posts, ~1,121 female judges, and ~25% of managerial roles in government (these values are from the early 2000s, and are surely much higher now).
MATERNITY LEAVE & BENEFITS.
In Iran, Law on Family & Youth Support mandates 9 months PAID maternity leave for public & private sectors, plus an optional 4 months remote work during pregnancy, job security protections for extended unpaid leave, and 2 weeks paternity leave.
In the US, the only federal guarantee is 12 weeks of UNPAID maternity leave.
Furthermore, the following benefits are available to Iranian women, but not American women.
1. Free maternity care and subsidized infertility treatments: Nationwide free maternal and delivery services, including for uninsured women; infertility treatments are heavily subsidized (~90%).
2. Labor protections: Pregnant women reassigned from hazardous jobs without pay loss; nursing breaks offered until child is 2; workplace childcare provisions required.
3. Family support policies under demographic law include: housing assistance, loans for married couples, job prioritization for parents, childcare subsidies, and retirement benefits for mothers with multiple children.
GENDER AFFIRMING TREATMENT.
Iran legalized gender-affirming surgery (SRS) in the 1980s! The government subsidizes surgeries and hormone therapy for trans individuals who are at least 18 years old and have completed an approval system that requires psychological counseling and hormone therapy for 1–3, and professional filtering panels that evaluate gender dysphoria vs homosexuality, including family interviews, DNA tests, and potential coercion.
In the US, SRS is a for profit industry with no subsidies and no checks and balances to protect minors.
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