ABSTRACT
During the second half of the nineteenth century, at the time of the Ghajar Dynasty, women in Iran began a struggle for rights, establishing schools for girls, and publishing newspapers and periodicals for women. After the Constitutional Revolution of 1907, women's rights were expanded. Iranian women athletes were not allowed to participate in the Olympic games in Barcelona in 1992. According to the Iranian News Agency (IRNA) and to Reuters cables, on two days alone the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution Komitehs, along with other forces such as the "RAD" and "TAEMIN", arrested eight hundred women for nonobservance of the dress code. In the faculties of letters and humanities, only 10 of 35 courses are available to women, and women are not allowed to study archaeology, the restoration of historic monuments, handicrafts, graphics, visual communications, or cinematography. In spite of all the barbarity, women in Iran have not stopped challenging the regime.
