Women, Environment, Climate and Crises

• Provision of basic needs (water, food, clothing, blanket) for 117072 women in the flood-stricken areas in 2021

• Women in charge of 40% of top executive positions in the Environment Organization

• Provistion of basic needs (water, food, clothing, blanket) for 20912 women in the earthquake-stricken areas in 2021

• Paying monthly pension to 299120 women affected by climate crisis in 2021

• Setting up 21014 safe shelters for temporary settlement of women in flood-stricken areas in 2021

• Women holding over one-quarter of top environmental executive positions

• Setting up 20166 safe shelters for temporary settlement of women in earthquake-stricken areas in 2021

• Implementing the natioal plan of “promoting and raising cultural awareness of producing and consuming healthy, standardized, and certified products” for rural and nomadic women

• Holding 4 terms of presidency of «Environment Organization» by women

Women and Media

• The presence of female directors and actresses as jury presidents at 45 international film festivals

• Increased women›s participation in information technology by 31.5%

• Active involvement of 903 female filmmakers in film industry

• Active presence of 2000 female specialists behind the scenes of cinema

• Winning 114 national and 128 international awards at prestigious festivals by female filmmakers

• Increased access to information and communication technology for women

• Access to mobile phone: 26 million people (45% of the total mobile users)

• Access to the computer: 14.5 million people (48% of the total users)

• Access to the internet: 187 million people (48% of the total number of users)

Women and Education

• Increase of over 33.3% in female university faculty members

• Women making up 34% of faculty members at medical universities

• Women making up 56% of state university students in the country

• Closing the gender gap in primary and secondary education in the country

• Overcoming women and girls’ illiteracy with a ratio of 99.3%

• Increased enrollment of high school female pupils by 84%

• Active presence of over 9500 female authors and 840 female publishers

• Increased enrollment of primary school female pupils by 115%

• Increased ratio of female to male students by 48%

Women and Health

• Implementation of the Universal Health Coverage Network for all urban inhabitants and 99% of rural people and nomads

• Performing of deliveries by female obstetricians in 95% of cases

• Presence of 60 midwives and 2.8 gynecologists per 100,000 women across the country

• Increse of women›s life expectancy to 78 years

• Reduction in neonatal mortality rate per 100,000 births by 8.2

• Reduced mortality rate of children under 5 years of age by 14.2 per 100,000 births

• Women making up 98%  of all gynecological surgeons in the country

• Women making up 40% of all specialist physicians and 30% of all subspecialty physicians

• Iranian women ranking 10th in the world for the lowest cervical cancer mortality rate

Women and Sports

• Women get access to over 16111 gyms.

• Women have won 3302 medals at recent international sporting events.

• Female athletes have earned Olympic and Paralympic quota places.

• 70 women are serving as heads of sports delegations across provinces.

• Women possess 97 international seats in sports federations worldwide.

• 88366 women work as referees in national and international sporting events.

• There are 51 female presidents and Vice presidents for different sports federations

Women, Employment and Entrepreneurship

• Implementing the «National Plan of Sustainable Family-Based Business Network» to connect job seekers with entrepreneurs and companies

• Provision of over 4200 micro-credit funds with 1200 billion Rials of governmental credit for rural women

• Over 2390 women serving on the boards of directors of knowledge-based companies

• The unemployment rate for women dropping to 13.7%

• Social Security Insurance coverage for housewives

• Social Security Insurance coverage for women-headed households

• Social Security Insurance coverage for all rural and nomad women and girls

• Sustainable business development via implementation of Systematic Strategy Plan for Rural and Nomadic Women Micro-Businesses based on LNSIE model

• Women founding over 250 knowledge-based companies

• Over 735 women working as managing directors in knowledge-based companies

• Increased access to natural resources for women via women cooperatives and land allocation to their unions

• Implementing the National Employment Empowerment Plan with a particular focus on rural and nomadic women

Women in Authority and Decision-Making Positions

• Women holding 25.2 % of all government positions at all levels, including the highest, middle, and basic executive positions

• Women serving as the vice presidents for women and family affairs

• Over 1000 women working as judges in the country

• Increase in the number of women candidates to enter parliament by 227% in the 11th term

• Increase in the number of women as parliament members by 16.5 times since the first term

• Increase in women›s participation in the Islamic Consultative Assembly by 5.59%

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