Woman in the Viewpoint of the Assembly of Experts of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Revolutions can be divided in two kinds in terms of gender consequences: modernizer and equalizer who women’s rescue is one of their obvious goals; male chauvinists who limit women to family and emphasis on gender differences instead of gender equality. Before studying the concept of women political partnership in contemporary Iranian society، it seems good to understand the attitudes of experts who formulate the constitution towards the issue of woman in their discussions. Our first idea is that fundamental law experts have had a five-aspect attitude (religious، natural، rational، revolution، juridical) to the issue of women and regarded them as an insignificant subset of universality of Islam. Based on this belief، on one hand، the issue of woman was regarded as limited to jurisprudence، since juridical experts dominated the intellectual structure and atmosphere of assembly that formulated the new constitution; on the other hand، collectivism view dominated individualism view، so woman، as an individual in a collection named family، became important and insignificant.