Abstract
One hundred and ten years ago, men and women took constitutionalism to achieve justice in Iran. National Council was the result of the Iranian people's struggle for justice, both women and men. Men policies from the beginning of legislation put women as minors and lunatics and bankrupted and banned them from vote. However, the Constitutional Revolution as a turning point and a national revolution played a key role in changing attitudes to women and structural context of their participation provided. In this paper, with the use of descriptive-analytical as well as quantitative methods, we sought to answer the question that what was the position of women in the twenty-first Parliament. The results of this study suggest that when Iranian women were allowed to participate politics, they have achieved to show their ability in politics as we saw examples in the twenty-first Parliament in which women had twenty-two percent participation.
Highlights
Until the reign of the Qajar dynasty, there was no specific detail about the procession of women and their role in socio-political developments
After the victory of constitutionalism, women who were involved alongside men in the victory of constitutionalism, in 1907, demanding the attainment of the right to vote, their political parties recognized by Parliament, but after a long discussion, the Parliament voted that associations are illegal
The first paragraph of Article 10 1) Women, 2) Those outside the growth and those that are under legal guardianship, 3) Foreign nationals, 4) Persons that their leaving from the true religion of Islam in the presence of a fully qualified religious judges approved, 5) People who are less than twenty years old, 6) Fraudulent bankrupt, 7) Beggars and those who earn livelihood without honor, 8) Murderers, robbers and other guilty parties that have been deserved to legal Islamic law punishment, 9) Political guilty that upraised and took action against the national government and the independence of country that were disqualified to being a parliament member
Summary
Until the reign of the Qajar dynasty, there was no specific detail about the procession of women and their role in socio-political developments. In general we can say that the presence of social and protest women in Iran goes back to the late 19th century. Forms of political participation of women at the level of populace, including: Participation in elections and the right to vote in elections, participation in groups and associations and political parties, and participation in the social experience, such as war. All these activities enhance the communication between women and society and can be considered as a form of political participation (Mustafa, 1996: 66-67). In this paper, according to the created, legal opportunities the preparation of a structural framework to activist’s activism and the preparation of the legislative representation of women in Parliament and their participation in the twenty-first Parliament are investigated
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