Famous Women

Alenush Terian was born in Tehran on November 9, 1920.
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Benazir Bhutto was born on June 21, 1953, in Karachi in an educated family. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan's former prime minister. She studied at the universities of Karachi and Rawalpindi, and entered Harvard…
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For the first time 70 years ago, women received voting rights in France. Finland was also the first European country that gave this right to women in 1906. Historical events and its perspectives:
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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Hindustani: )November, 16 1917 – October, 31 1984)  was the third Prime Minister of India and a central figure of the Indian National Congress party.
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In 1942, Dr. Fatemeh Sayyah became Iran's First Female Professor when she was awarded the chair of Russian Language and Comparative Literature at Tehran University.
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Algerian writer and filmmaker Assia Djebar passed away at the age of 78 in a hospital in Paris. Her body will be laid to rest in her coastal hometown of Sharshal near Algeria this week.
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1788 United States (to stand for election) 1893 New Zealand (to vote) 1902 Australia 1906 Finland
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Simin Behbahani, Iran's lady of poetry is no longer among us but will be forever remembered through her beautiful poems depicting the pain of our people and country. In memory of her, we say: "Iran, our beautiful homeland which we will…
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Women in Tehran first entered politics during the reign of Naseraddin Shah when women participated in protests of the Tobacco movement. However, it was not until the constitutional revolution that women participated directly in political…
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This society was established by Roshanak Nodoost in 1920. The society was formed with the help of Jamileh Sadighi and Sakineh Shabrang, because of the hardships and difficulties resulted from the First World War.  The goal of the society…
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