Consequences of land expropriation from female landlords and landowners during the 1962-1972 land reform in the western part of Iran

Goal: To explore the development of landownership by women as the result of the1962 Land Reform. We want to show why and how expropriation of possession from women happened and what the consequences were.
Method/Research Design: Data is gathered from library and archival resources. An analysis was carried out according to grounded procedure.
Findings: Over the process of land reform women were denied ownership on a large scale. The reasons for expropriation from women were the Law of Land reform, the absence of female owners in the region, quota and quota-setting which was considered a masculine right by tradition in rural communities, and the collapse of the lord-servant system. Expropriation from women had implications, including the loss of social status, growing inequality between rural and urban women, some cases of suicide, and expansion of legal possession.