Women Strategies in Confronting with Inequalities, Discriminations and Violence: Possibilities and Limitations

This descriptive and analytical research was done with the aim of discovering and identifying women's' strategies in the face of dominance of men. The main question is what women do against inequalities, gender discrimination and violence. The method of grounded theory and in-depth interview with semi-structured questions was the method and technique of data collection. The selection of 43 women with purposeful sampling and with emphasis on theoretical saturation led to their narration of strategies. The results show that due to the dominance of tradition and ideology and the legitimacy them through socialization in the patriarchal society, by induction of the marginal position of women in thought and action, sometimes their self- ignorance and forced silence is seen, which is a silent strategy and hegemonic subject. They accept the current situation, but with awareness of needs and interests and in protesting the existing situation and the need for change, women do strategies of corrective, independence, protest, punitive, liberation, elimination, defensive, offensive, awareness and preventive. They are reformed, independent, protesting, warning, forcing, dissuading, retaliating, attacking, teaching and cautious subjects. As a result, four strategies of coercive tolerance, correction, transformation and prevention were obtained.