Conservative clerics in Iran have criticised a proposal by re-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to include three women in his new cabinet.
“There are religious doubts over the abilities of women when it comes to management,” said hardline lawmaker Mohammad Taghi Rahbar.
He said his views were shared by many MPs from his clerics’ faction, which dominates Iran’s parliament.
The Islamic republic has not had female ministers since the 1979 revolution.
