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Women's Role in Revolutions in Iran and China
Summary: During the political revolutions in Iran and China, Women were affected in such a way that they would to anything to achieve equality with men the right to unarranged marriages and divorce. Women's role in society improved because of the many actions taken by women to gain equality.
Regardless of location, revolutions have always had an effect on women's role in society and on themselves as well. Some Revolutions gave women more opportunities while others restricted them to domestic servants. During the Chinese revolution of 1949, women gained their greater rights and freedoms and joined various branches of the Women's National Salvation League, while education rights were given to city women it didn't spread countryside. In Iran, matters were taken in opposite directions in their revolution of 1979, where women had expected to receive equal opportunities and gender rights none were received. During the revolution and war women were expected to work in place of men in factories, but this arrangement was only seen by the government to be temporary. This did not remain so. Women were not to have a point of view in men's perspective and society's perspective before the revolution. Women revolted and paraded for...
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