Nazila Fathi Quotes
Ironically, Even As Khomeini Empowered Some Women, He Also Found Ways Of Oppressing Their Entire Gender. The Regime Replaced The Shah's Secular Law With An Islamic Law, Which Allowed Men To Marry Up To Four Wives, To Divorce Them Whenever The Husbands Wished, And To Retain Custody Of Children. The Law Put The Value Of A Woman's Life At Half Of That Of A Man's Life, And The Value Of Her Testimony At Half That Of A Man's Testimony.
Thus Women In Iran Became Watchdogs And Scapegoats, Both The Foot Soldiers Of The New Regime And Its Victims. Newly Empowered, They Were Also Newly Oppressed. Theirs Was A Paradoxical Plight - And At The Time, No One Could Have Foreseen How It Would One Day Make Women A Force Of Enormous Change In Iran.
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