The rights to vote for women were maintained and women were encouraged to participate fully in all forms of public life. As a result, now a day's female students account for more than half of the freshmen classes in the universities of Iran...

Then the first Women's Rights Convention was held on July nineteenth and twentieth in 1848. The convention was assembled as planned, and over the two days of discussion, the Declaration of Sentiments and twelve resolutions received agreement and endorsement, one by one, with a few amendments...

Married women were legally dead in the eyes of the law Women were not allowed to vote Women had to submit to laws when they had no voice in their formation Married women had no property rights Women were not allowed to enter professions such as medicine or law Women had no means to gain an education since no college or university would accept women students With only a few exceptions Women were not allowed to participate in the affairs of the church Women were robbed of their self-confidence and self-respect Were made totally dependent on men...

One of the many ways was parading. One of the largest parades was held in New York. It was the 1912 Women's Suffrage parade. The parade was watched by 500,000 people...

Today in society, women are about as equal to men as you can get. They have all of the same rights, including rights that women were once deprived of. Some of those rights are voting, working, and being government officials...