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Women in Pahlavi Iran
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Women were 28% of Iran's university students by 1976, up from 8% in 1946-47. They entered Tehran University in 1936, won the vote in 1963 and joined the Literacy Corps in 1969.
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Farrokhroo Parsa, a physician and teacher elected to parliament in 1963, became Iran's first woman cabinet minister in 1968, when she took over the Ministry of Education.
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Shirin Ebadi became a judge in 1969 and, in 1975, the first woman to preside over Tehran's city court. In 2003 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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