Iran unveils plan for women's car
- added October 08, 2008
- 2 responses
Iran has announced plans for a new car designed specially for women.
Its features will include automatic transmission, parking and navigation aids and a jack for changing tires without getting grease on your chador.
Iran's biggest car producer, Iran Khodro, says it will come in a range of feminine colors and interior designs.
Other features are proposed to make it easier for women when they are doing the family shopping or taking their children to school.
If that suggests a degree of sexist stereotyping in Iranian society, it is, just possibly, true.
Despite the fact that Iranian women now make up around 60% of university students, Iranian men have yet to absorb fully the message of equality.
A recent study by an academic from Allameh Tabatabaii University in Tehran found that working Iranian women believed that the domestic chores should be shared more equally.
However, according to the report "their husbands think and act traditionally".
Indeed, the idea of married men cooking for their wives is viewed in Iran as highly eccentric.
As a result, the report concludes, Iran's new generation of working women "are obliged to play the role of a superwoman to resolve their contradictions in handling all tasks."
It says such women "have become increasingly frustrated with their life".
Its features will include automatic transmission, parking and navigation aids and a jack for changing tires without getting grease on your chador.
Iran's biggest car producer, Iran Khodro, says it will come in a range of feminine colors and interior designs.
Other features are proposed to make it easier for women when they are doing the family shopping or taking their children to school.
If that suggests a degree of sexist stereotyping in Iranian society, it is, just possibly, true.
Despite the fact that Iranian women now make up around 60% of university students, Iranian men have yet to absorb fully the message of equality.
A recent study by an academic from Allameh Tabatabaii University in Tehran found that working Iranian women believed that the domestic chores should be shared more equally.
However, according to the report "their husbands think and act traditionally".
Indeed, the idea of married men cooking for their wives is viewed in Iran as highly eccentric.
As a result, the report concludes, Iran's new generation of working women "are obliged to play the role of a superwoman to resolve their contradictions in handling all tasks."
It says such women "have become increasingly frustrated with their life".
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So tell me...are all the windows going to be blacked out and only a slit in the windshield open? After all shouldn't men be 'protected' from women at all times? Muslim men are obviously threatened by their presence. It is such a shame to have such self-doubts about ones own masculinity and intelligence.
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They let them drive now!? It's only a matter of time before Muslim women began to realize how much more they are worth and rebel against their crippling religion.
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- ChristmasAsen
- 1 month ago
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