India’s Supreme Court will set-up a daycare center for its staff, which advocates said will increase the number of women in the workforce by setting an example for others to follow. Female participation in India’s workforce has been declining in recent years, according to the United Nations agency for gender equality, UN Women, Reuters reported....Read More
Tehran’s Idea Gallery is hanging a collection of artworks created by a number of Iranian and foreign artists on the theme of the Kermanshah earthquake. Sarepole Zahab in the western Iranian region of Kermanshah experienced a devastating earthquake in November 2017, which claimed hundreds of lives and injured thousands. The exhibition, which opened on Friday,...Read More
TEHRAN – There is a growth of 300 percent in the number of managerial positions for women in Interior Ministry, said Seyed Salman Samani, the ministry’s spokesman here on Thursday. The managerial positions include headwomen of the villages to general managers and deputy governors, working in different parts of the country, he added. Currently the...Read More
TEHRAN – Several international festivals will be screening a number of films by Iranian directors during April and May. “Double” by Ronak Jafari will go on screen at the 40th Moscow International Film Festival running from April 19 to 26, the organizers have announced. The film is an entry to the Short Films Competition of...Read More
Aseyeh Hatami is the founder and Managing Director of IranTalent.com. Established in 2003, IranTalent is the leading online recruitment service in Iran, with a registered membership consisting of over half a million Iranian professionals, covering all sectors and job categories. By providing employers the opportunity to advertise vacancies on its website and search its database...Read More
The number of children adopted in Tehran increased by 25 percent in year 1396 (March 2017 – March 2018) compared to the year before, deputy head of Tehran’s welfare organization for social affairs said. Some 500 children were adopted by Tehraners last year, a 25-percent growth year on year and a 70-percent growth compared to...Read More
Folk costumes from Iran, Turkey, Syria, and Morocco have been put on display in Katara cultural village in Doha, Qatar, for the very first time. Iran is showcasing nine of its traditional costumes for women from the regions of Bakhtiari, Luri, Azeri, Khorasani, etc. The show opened for a week on Friday with the slogan...Read More
Some 75 percent of Iranian handicrafts are produced by females, said Masoumeh Ebtekar, vice president for women’s and family affairs. The administration is following up on plans aiming to give women wider roles in tourism sector, Ebtekar added, addressing the closing ceremony of a handicrafts exhibit in the city of Mashhad on Sunday. In addition...Read More
About 3,000 Iranian women are serving as rural executives across the country with Khorasan Razavi province in the northeast and Sistan and Baluchestan province in the southeast having the highest number of female local government heads. According to Deputy Head of Iran’s Rural Councils Department Saeid-Reza Jandaghian, over the past one hundred years, Iran has...Read More
Iran’s Vice-President for Women and Family Affairs says the hundreds of governmental and non-governmental organizations working in the fields of women rights are ‘national assets’ of the country. In an address to a Saturday ceremony in the Centre for Peace and Environment in Tehran, Massoumeh Ebtekar said there are lots of such organizations in Iran...Read More
