Iran unveils plan for women's car
BBC / Jon Leyne
09-Oct-2008 (one comment)

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 tyres without getting grease on your chador. Iran's biggest car producer, Iran Khodro, says it will come in a range of feminine colours 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.

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did it say "feminine colors and interior design"?  LOL  I wonder if they would automatically make these cars smaller, despite the fact that women usually travel with kids. 

Without a regime to force women equality, our people will continue to keep closed minds and move backwards. The women movement of Iran was a government based effort in the past, but now, Iranian women have a hard time letting go of the progresses made and some of the rights that they still have (like driving, voting and higher education). Iranian women finally have started to speak up and follow the very few good women who are leading the movement now.

Anyone reading this article may think this kind of narrow-minded sexism is due to the IRI government's imposed values. The truth is that the majority of Iranians who have lived in the west most of their adult lives still feel the same way...

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.  

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". IRANdokht