After some resistance from her husband, Ibtissam Jaber joined Yanouh cooperative in rural South Lebanon. Jaber, a mother of seven, loves producing traditional agro-foods and believes in the importance of contributing to her household’s income. By selling her products at food exhibitions across the country, she has now transitioned from being a small-scale producer to...Read More

 The website of the atlas for status of women and family is now at the final stage, Athare Nejadi, deputy director for programming and coordination at the vice presidency for women’s and family affairs, said here on Monday. The users can enjoy the data provided in the website linked with the website of the presidential...Read More

 The University of Tehran is to host the 2nd National Festival on Women and Science in February, commemorating the late Iranian mathematician, Maryam Mirzakhani. The event is to be held to honor exemplary women who are active in academic, cultural and social areas, IRNA reported on Wednesday. According to the Ministry of Science, Research and...Read More

 All infrastructures and cultural and religious conditions are provided for Iranian women’s presence at stadiums, said Masoud Soltanifar, minister for Sports and Youth Affairs. Since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2018) coordination has been made for women’s presence in some international events and now all infrastructures are provided for women...Read More

 Two more female ambassadors to foreign countries are to be probably appointed, MP Hamideh Zarabadi said on Sunday quoting Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as saying. In the past, the Foreign Ministry was male-oriented, however, several measures have now been taken to pave the ground for more women presence in the ministry, Zarif said in...Read More

 Vice President for Women’s and Family Affairs Masoumeh Ebtekar and Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian signed here on Sunday a memorandum of understanding (MOU), pivoting on improving water and energy consumption. The MOU was designed to plan, organize and improve the goals of women’s empowerment in order to coordinate cultural, educational and research activities for optimal...Read More

Women who experience a ‘false positive’ result after a mammogram are twice as likely to end up developing cancer as those who get a negative result, research suggested. Every year, thousands of women are given the ‘all-clear’ after being told that apparent abnormalities are not malignant, telegraph.co.uk reported. But research on more than one million...Read More

Iranian women play important role in society despite Western media propaganda, said the project manager of DocsBarcelona international documentary film festival. “Some Western media stress that Iran neglects women’s rights, but I observed during my short trip that the women are strong and active and play important roles in society,” Elena Subirà i Roca told...Read More

Nan-e Sarma (mother of cold) looks forward the light and his male mate Amoo Norouz felicitates the spring and Norouz (Iranian New Year). The love story of Nan-e Sarma and Amoo Norouz is an example of what happens not only in the nature but the whole world. This is one of the folk stories of...Read More

Women play a great role in planning to address water and environmental problems, Molood Shiva, advisor to the energy minister for women’s and family affairs said here on Saturday. Women have played an effective role in water supplying and water projects all over the world, Fars quoted Shiva, speaking at the congress titled “zero point...Read More