Understanding women's lived experience of political socialization process in Iran

The present study was designed and implemented with the aim of understanding the lived experience of women from the process of political socialization in Iran. This research is based on the methodological approach of phenomenology in order to understand the nature of the issue of women's political socialization in Iran. In data collection, semi-structured and interactive interview technique was used, and for data analysis, Claizi's method was used, and the validity and reliability of the study was checked according to the method suggested by Lincoln and Goba. The target community of this study was selected based on snowball sampling and by conducting 20 interviews and holding two group discussions with women who have experience in political activism; Conceptual and theoretical saturation was obtained. In order to analyze information during data collection, step by step, coding has been done by two researchers to reduce the conceptualization error rate. In this process, in the first stage of coding, 111 codes were identified, and after aggregating and combining the codes, 10 themes were identified, including "women's identity conflicts, gender stereotypes, unequal educational processes, masculinization of the political space, subordination and marginalization of women in the political structure and partisanship, male decision-making structures, the lack of universality of women's political activity, social distrust, the void of the political model of women's behavior, the conflict of cultural structures with women's social and cultural agency" were identified, which shows the weakness of the political socialization process of women in Iran. The conclusion of the article is that women in Iranian society are on the sidelines of politics. The system has been created for them due to the weakness of political socialization and a kind of political rejection. In other words, it can be said that today's conditions of Iranian society are facing a phenomenon called women's bio-political contradiction and challenges and confusions. It still exists in women's domain.