essay
The status of women and female children in Iran: an update from the 1986 census
In the eye of the storm : women in post-revolutionary Iran • London • Published In 1994 • Pages: 44-60, 197-199
By: Aghajanian, Akbar.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this paper, the author examines the relative status of women in terms of various indicators culled from government statistics, including literacy, school enrollment, and employment rates, and female child mortality. The author finds an unequal access to education and employment based on gender. A nine percent excess female infant mortality rate, prompted the author to carry out his own survey of food distribution practices in a sample of Shiraz households. He found that men are fed first and larger portions of the best food. Although this practice is moderated if the mother has an outside income, is more educated, and has fewer than five children.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mortality
- Writing
- Diet
- Labor supply and employment
- Division of labor by gender
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iran
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1986
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1976-1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iran
- NotesAdditional notes
- Akbar Aghajanian
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93049077
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iranians