Research Priorities in Women Social Sciences in Iran

The present paper is concerned with research priorities in women social sciences. The priorities collected from the field study experience of the academic members of this young domain can yield beneficial results as they in formus about the buildup of women social sciences and the research dimensions as well as unnoticed and unanswered questions in this domain in Iran. Having conducted semi-structured interviews with expert researchers of social sciences, the thematic priorities provided by them were collected; which indicate their evaluation of conducted researches as part of the academic structure of the domain and their views about the current requirements of the Iranian society. The findings of the study reveal that the expert researchers, showing awareness of the fast-speed social changes of the recent decades and transformations in gender-related approaches, focus on issues like policy-making, occupation, gender segregation, family, social problems, life style, migration, women cultural studies, and theoretical studies.