A woman has for the first time ever been promoted as head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Line Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi in a decree assigned Farzaneh Sharafbafi to the post. The minister mandated Sharafbafi to structurally reform the Islamic Republic Airliner (Iran Air) so that it would be...Read More
Maryam Mirzakhani is an Iranian mathematician working in the United States. Since 1 September 2008, she has served as a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. In 2014, Mirzakhani became both the first woman and the first Iranian honored with the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics. The award committee cited her work...Read More
The Institute for the Protection of Women’s Rights, on the occasion of International Day of Families, held workshop to review the rules of family protection on 13 May 2017. This course was presented by Dr. Sarir. In this workshop, a large number of students and lawyers participated. In the beginning, she introduced a history...Read More
Acclaimed Iranian director Asghar Farhadi introduced two prominent Iranian-Americans to represent his movie, “The Salesman,” at the Oscar Academy Awards which is to be held on Feb 26. The first female space tourist engineer Anousheh Ansari and former director of Solar Systems Exploration at NASA Professor Firouz Naderi are to attend the Oscar Academy Awards on Farhadi’s...Read More
Anousheh Ansari (born September 12, 1966, in Mashhad, Iran) is an Iranian-American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. In 2001 in a stock-for-stock transaction for 10.8 million shares of Sonus stock. Anousheh Ansari became “a vice president of Sonus...Read More
TEHRAN – An international training course on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) for women farmers will open today in the city of Damghan. Malaysian trainer Chan Seng Kit will offer the course which will run until January 11, IRNA reported on Saturday. The main objectives of the event are providing female promoters of agriculture with...Read More
The Press Exhibition is an arena for dialog… It is an opportunity to be used for both explaining the capacities and roles played by the press and print media to the public and authorities, and the enhancement of [existing] capacities. It is the largest annual press festival in Iran with a miscellany of media from...Read More
Roxanne Varza currently leads Microsoft’s startup activities in France, running both Bizspark and Microsoft Ventures programs. In April 2013, Business Insider listed her as one of the top 30 women under 30 in tech. Prior to Microsoft, she worked for several European startups and was also the Editor of TechCrunch France. She also co-founded the...Read More
