Breast cancer, most common, increasing among Iranian women

TEHRAN – Breast cancer is the most common cancer among Iranian women and about 14 thousand cases are added to the number of patients with breast cancer in the country annually, head of the cancer prevention department of the Ministry of Health, Ali Qanbari, said here on Saturday.

‘Women, main role-makers in combat with climate change’

TEHRAN – Women can be the main role-makers encountering the climate change, developing the modern knowledge in programs and policies, said Masoumeh Ebtekar, Iranian Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, here on Sunday.

Empowering women’s cooperatives, key for rural development: official

TEHRAN –Women’s cooperative companies are the principal focus of rural development, said Hossein Shirzad, deputy agriculture minister and managing director of the central organization of rural cooperatives of Iran.

Jurisprudential challenges of women's rights to be studied

TEHRAN – The 2nd meeting of jurisprudential conferences pivoting on the subject of women’s rights is to be held in three cities of Iran.

Female Iranian MP elected as member of IPU presiding board

TEHRAN – Seyyedeh Fatemeh Hosseini, a member of Majlis (Iranian Parliament), was elected as a member of the presiding board of Forum of Women Parliamentarians of the Inter-Parliamentarian Union (IPU) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Textbooks to show favorable role, face of women: official

TEHRAN – A research center for education and training started a research on “women’s favorable role and face in textbooks”, said Farahnaz Minaeepour, general director for women’s affairs in the Ministry of Education.

Number of female faculty members up 17 times in 40 years

TEHRAN -- Women made up 1.4 percent of faculty members of universities before the Islamic Revolution (1979), while this number shows a growth of 17 times reaching to 24 percent, Rajabali Borzooei, an official with Shahid Beheshti University, has said.

Varzaneh hosts congress on women, chastity and white chador

TEHRAN - - The museum of anthropology of the desert city of Varzaneh, hosted a congress on chastity and white chador for women, marking the Sacred Defense Week (September 23-September 28) and the World Tourism Day, September 27, IRIB reported on Friday.

Girl students to write heartfelt letters to vice president

TEHRAN – The Iranian vice president for women’s and family affairs, Masoumeh Ebtekar, in a new initiative, invited girl students, to write about their problems in heartfelt letters to her.

Female school service drivers to cater for girl students

TEHRAN – A new law approved here on Tuesday by Tehran’s City Council gave priority to women drivers for girls’ school services.

No school for autistic girls in Tehran

TEHRAN – Despite existing five schools special for autistic boy students in Tehran, there still exists no school for girls suffering the disease, said Seyed Mohammad Ali Miri, an official with Iran Autism Association here on Sunday.

Women to be appointed as managers of 22 subdistricts of Tehran

TEHRAN – At least 22 subdistricts of Tehran Municipality will be headed by 22 women managers who are to be appointed during the coming three months, announced Seyed Mohammad Afshani, the mayor of Tehran here on Sunday.

Prevalence of overweight and obesity among girls increasing

TEHRAN – The prevalence of overweight in girl students under the age of 20 is increasing form 6.4 percent in 1980 to 10.3 percent in 2015, Mohammad Hashemi, secretary of the society for the prevention of obesity in Iran said here on Sunday.

Plan on improving health of mothers on agenda

TEHRAN – A plan on improving next generation’s well-being, improving mothers’ health and strengthening the fundamentals of families is to be implemented in different provinces, Fariba Derakhshan-nia, an official with the Welfare Organization has said.

174 provincial female managers appointed in a year

TEHRAN – A number of 174 women were appointed in managerial positions in different levels over the past year, Masoumeh Ebtekar, vice president for women’s and family affairs, said here on Wednesday.

Literacy gap between women and men decreasing in Iran

TEHRAN – Literacy gap between women and men is decreasing in Iran, reaching to 12 percent compared to 40 percent three decades ago.

Tehran hosting 13th women and national production expo

TEHRAN – The thirteenth exhibition of women and national production kicked off here on September 6.

Cooperative company for women vendors to be formed

TEHRAN – A cooperative company is to be formed in order to organize activities of female vendors, Seyed Hamid Kalantari, deputy minister of cooperatives, labor and social welfare, said here on Sunday.

Ebtekar calls for improving food, water consumption patterns

TEHRAN – The pattern of food and water consumption is wrong among Iranian families and it needs to be improved, Masoumeh Ebtekar, the vice president for women’s and family affairs, said here on Monday.

By Naghmeh Mizanian

Women’s culinary, an attempt for entrepreneurship

TEHRAN -- The idea came up from a road trip Matin took with a group of Spaniards around Iran.

National plan on family and virtual world to be launched

TEHRAN – “The national plan on family and virtual world” will be implemented in order to increase the knowledge of women about virtual world and networks, says Susan Radfar who acts as advisor on women and family affairs at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.

$55m allocated for insurance of breadwinner women

TEHRAN – A total amount of 2.3 trillion rials (approximately $55 million) has been allocated for the insurance of women heads of family in the current Iranian calendar year (March 2018-March 2019(, ISNA reported on Thursday.

Iranian women’s life quality, expectancy have improved greatly: Ebtekar

TEHRAN – The indicators of life quality, life expectancy, and achievements in different fields prove great growth among women in Iran since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

Iran revives intl. federation of Muslim women’s sports

TEHRAN – After eight years of halt, the International federation of Muslim women’s sports restarted its work here on Saturday.

Industry ministry forms unit to address entrepreneur women’s problems

TEHRAN – The Ministry of Industry, Mining, and Trade has formed a special unit with the aim of dealing with entrepreneur women’s problems.