Minister of Communications and Information Technology (ICT) Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi believes employing women in managerial positions reduces corruption and embezzlement. Speaking in Tehran on Tuesday in a seminar dubbed “The Role of Communication and Information Technology in Empowering Women,” Azari Jahromi said that innovation and creativity are two main pillars of economic growth in the...Read More
An Iranian team stood at first place at the 2018 West Asian Women’s Handball Championship. The Shahid Chamran team from Larestan, in Fars Province southern Iran, succeeded to defeat Syria 23-8 in Amman, Jordan, in the last game and won the championship title after five consecutive victories on Wednesday, IRNA reported. Syria and Jordan became...Read More
A group of women in Iran’s Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari Province have built a 5-kilometre road to a remote village by doing tough jobs like operating cranes, graders, trucks, and tractors. There are still many remote villages across Iran where a small incident or a change of season blocks roads, and as a result the residents cannot commute....Read More
Tehran, Feb 24, IRNA – Iranian para-archer Zahra Nemati has been shortlisted by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) among the list of five candidates for the 2018 International Women’s Day Recognition Award. The 32-year-old archer made history as the first Iranian woman to win a Paralympic or Olympic medal when she collected women’s individual recurve...Read More
The Institute for the Protection of Women’s Rights as a nongovernmental organization ( NGO) which is aimed at promoting women’s rightsworks has arranged the series of visits and interviews to support women of religious minorities. The first meeting with Assyrian women took place in the Assyrian Association of Tehran, which reports as follows: A group...Read More
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Women today tend to live longer than men almost everywhere worldwide — in some countries by more than a decade. Now, three centuries of historical records show that women don’t just outlive men in normal times: They’re more likely to survive even in the worst of circumstances, such as famines and epidemics,...Read More
TEHRAN – The budget allocated to female breadwinners has not been cut, it has not been received yet, vice president for women’s and family affairs said, IRNA reported on Friday. The proposed national budget bill for the next Iranian calendar year 1397, starting on March 21, 2018, has approved 210 billion rials ($5.25 million) for...Read More
TEHRAN – Iranian director Reza Farahmand’s “Women with Gunpowder Earrings” has been named best feature-length documentary in the international competition of the 11th Cinema Verite festival. The film is about Nur, a female journalist who covers stories about Syrian and Iraqi women and children in the war against the ISIS terrorists. It also brought Farahmand...Read More
ATHLETE INSIGHT COMBINES WITH TRADEMARK NIKE INNOVATION TO SHAPE A GROUNDBREAKING GARMENT. The Nike Pro Hijab has been a year in the making, but its impetus can be traced much further back to Nike’s founding mission, to serve athletes, with the signature addendum: If you have a body, you’re an athlete. The brand has underscored...Read More
Tehran (ISNA) – The director of Johns Hopkins Breast Center at Green Spring Station noted that breast cancer survivorship was very important in the U.S. because the rate of the cure was high and the number of survival was really increasing. Dr. Fariba Asrari is the director of Johns Hopkins Breast Center at Green Spring...Read More
