Women teachers from employment to retirement in the first Pahlavi era

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Sistan and Belupistan, Zahedan, Iran

2 Master's student in history, University of Sistan and Baluchistan, Zahedan, Iran

Abstract

The education of women by women in the structure of the Ministry of Culture is one of the important and new phenomena in the era of Reza Shah. Women teachers entered the field of education, worked and retired through a process that was very similar to the hiring process of men. The women who taught middle and lower class girls in the cities and villages with the 6th grade and later in the structure of the Ministry of Education created an important change in the level of Iranian society by entering this field. The issue of how the hiring process and then control over their work was like can be one of the most important indicators of Reza Shah's era. Among them, the teachers of Kerman state have been considered, because this state had many deprived areas during the period under review, and there was also religious and ethnic diversity in it. In this research, the cases of several women teachers have been explored from the stage of employment to retirement, and the research has been prepared and organized by posing the question of what was the activity status of women teachers in the era of Reza Shah Pahlavi in Kerman province. Therefore, the research has been compiled . The results show that, in their first steps, women teachers have faced many problems in terms of rights, place of life, maternal and female responsibilities. Iranian society has not been very ready to accept womenteachers in the new form of education.

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