A Glance at Economic Activity of Women in Iran

This paper deals with the analysis of Iranian women’s economic participation, employment and unemployment during 1976-2002. The results illustrate that women’s participation rate and employment rates in Iran in proportion to those of men in Iran or women in other countries are low. Despite the related improvement in the last decades, the mentioned rates are still low, and the fact that women's participation rate has still remained unchanged for forty years calls for a serious consideration. However, for many reasons, there has been no attention paid to the importance and the necessity of women’s participation in economic activities and their direct participation in national production.