Gender and social justice in Iran

The sense of injustice has a huge impact on all aspects of everyone’s life and significantly alters and administers his/her activities as well as decisions. As a historical fact the feeling of social injustice is more common among women in comparison to men, although it is considerably dissimilar in developed and developing countries. Thus, assessing this sensation regularly has a great importance especially among developing nations.

Some give credence to the hypothesis that differences between women and men are due to imbalance in accepting evolutionary and secularist ideas to each of two genders. Therefore, it is asserted that if women’s acceptance of new evolutions accelerates, this contrast will fall off steadily and will end in a more just, balanced and equitable society.

This study wishes for try out this assertion in Iran by taking advantage of some statistics which are based upon some researches held in the years of 1975, 1996, 2001 and 2004 that have studied the trends in women’s and men’s judgment of social justice in a nearly thirty-year period of time. Also some newer studies are incorporated into the mentioned ones to make this study capable of giving a more accurate explanation of the relation between gender and social justice.

By making use of different factors such as individual satisfaction, sexual satisfaction, patterns of division of labor, sense of gender equality and possibility of equal opportunity to work, a compound indicator is made to measure the sensation of justice in both genders.

At the end, some notable results are the existence of a continued gender injustice in the society with consideration to its reshaped forms and replaced settings, also giving some remarks on possible reasons which can justify this trend.

 

Keywords: gender, injustice, inequality, social justice, Iran