“Only the directorate for women and family affairs is going to be run by a woman and there is not going to be any woman minister.”
This was announced by Tayyebeh Siavoshi, member of women’s faction in the mullahs’ parliament. On the reasons for Rouhani’s refusal to pick any women as minister, she said, “A range of reasons have been brought up, the most important being that the traditional sector of society is opposed to women’s prominent presence in the executive arena and some people disagree.”
Siavoshi added, “There is news that the number of female deputies of the president is going to be reduced and women are going to work only in the women’s directorate. As for the Minister of Education, there is no reliable news either.” (The state-run Mehr news agency, August 4, 2017)