Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Reza Shah
During the reign of Reza Shah, women underwent many drastic, yet positive, changes. Women went from being expected to work in the home and bear children, to being able to become students and important members of the workforce. Reza Shah opened up schools for girls and also made it law that no woman shall wear a veil. Reza Shah did all he could to keep up with modernity, and in his eyes this meant dealing with women and the changing expectations of them around the world. Reza Shah paved the way for women to have more freedoms and becoem more prominent members of society. While roles for women are even more different today, I definitely feel that Reza Shah set the stage for women to emerge as important people in the Middle Eastern world.
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I agree with your posting... however you should add the fact that Reza Shah introduced many reforms, such as reorganizing the army, the government administration, and finances. He seemed to be participating in establishing himself and Iran as a country who can stand on its own two feet.
ReplyDeleteDo you really think that Reza Shah paved the way for women to have more freedom? ON that note I disagree, I think what he wanted to do and what he actually did for women are completely different. Many of his reforms regarding women were planned to help persist their freedoms and rights, but in actuality I think he set them back even further; by forcing reform upon them, and making the Iranian society believe these reforms were women rights movements further kept them for gaining the real freedoms and rights they'd been searching for.
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