Breadwinner women

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  • breadwinner women 2020-07-22 23:42

    Handicraft training courses aim to empower breadwinner women 

    TEHRAN – The Welfare Department of Qarchak, a city in Tehran province, will hold training courses in three handicraft fields of kilim, painting, and leather works for women who are breadwinners of their families.

  • Iran, Pakistan to enhance co-op on women’s empowerment 2019-08-02 20:59

    Iran, Pakistan to enhance co-op on women’s empowerment

    TEHRAN – The Iranian vice-president for women’s and family affairs, Masoumeh Ebtekar, and the Pakistani ambassador to Iran, Riffat Masood, discussed ways to enhance cooperation in the field of women’s empowerment.

  • Breadwinner women in Uraman 2019-06-18 14:23

    Breadwinner women in Uraman

    In our country the number of breadwinner women is on the rise. Breadwinner women, are the heads of household either because they are widowed, divorced or left by their husband. Based on the statistics breadwinner women and their families constitute a 5-million population. Men, mostly in rural areas, are more prone to lose their lives or sustain life-limiting injuries, as they travel more and do more difficult jobs. And that’s why women become the primary source of economic support for themselves and their families by either setting up small enterprises, making handicrafts, or livestock breeding. In Uraman District in Sarvabad County, the population stands at 10,000. Some 300 breadwinning women are living in the region.

  • today photos 2019-06-16 21:44

    ‘Welfare Organization helps 15,000 breadwinning women to become financially independent annually’

    TEHRAN – On average, 15,000 female heads of households who have been under Iran Welfare Organization’s assistance, become financially independent annually through employment and entrepreneurship programs, director general of family and women capacity building office at the Welfare Organization has said.

  • Iran supports breadwinner women granting solar power plants 2019-05-18 19:57

    Iran supports breadwinner women by granting solar power plants

    TEHRAN – Iran plans to facilitate income generation for breadwinner women providing them with small-scale solar power plants, Vice President for Women’s and Family Affairs, Masoumeh Ebtekar, said.

  • breadwinner women 2019-03-04 21:47

    $71 million allocated for breadwinner women’s insurance

    TEHRAN – The budget bill for the next Iranian calendar year 1398 (starting on March 21, 2019) has predicted an amount of 3 trillion rials (about $71 million) for the insurance of breadwinner women.

  • breadwinner 2018-11-19 21:47

    $4.7m allocated to 6,500 breadwinner women

    TEHRAN – An amount of 200 billion rials (around $4.7 million) has been allocated to 6,500 breadwinner women, Soraya Shareqi, general director for women’s and family affairs department of Tehran Governorate said in a press conference here on Monday.

  • women and national production 2018-09-10 20:48

    Tehran hosting 13th women and national production expo

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

  • breadwinner 2018-08-21 00:51

    $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.