Pre-Revolution Society of Iran by Pratik Mahajan https://padlet.com/mppsm15/swe76sf3em3x English L&L en-us 2017-11-27 10:21:15 UTC 2025-11-07 05:32:23 UTC hello@padlet.com Introduction mppsm15 https://padlet.com/mppsm15/swe76sf3em3x/wish/210320969 Pre-revolutionary Iran was a complicated time, one that included much change and conflict. Reza Shah and his son, Mohammed Reza Shah, the leaders of the Pahlavi regime, were trying to introduce modernity into Iran, as Ataturk did in Turkey. Many of their reforms centered around women, placing them in the public eye.]]> 2017-11-27 10:24:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mppsm15/swe76sf3em3x/wish/210320969 Governance and Economy mppsm15 https://padlet.com/mppsm15/swe76sf3em3x/wish/210321413
Governance was mainly in the hands of the monarchy. Shah regime was seen to be oppressive and irrational with its policies, especially the one’s he took regarding the economy. 

In mid 1960s, Iran was going through a great recession. Inflation was at it’s lowest, and deflation was high. A major contributor to this was the fall in the wages of unskilled labourers, which laid ground for political unrest. 

Urbanization and industrialization was also increasing rapidly, with 50% of the population living in semi-urban or urban areas by 1978. 

Rapid industrialization clubbed with increase in oil price gave the regime a message to rationalize the economy, but instead the Shah hastily expanded the industrial sector with greater reliance on foreign experts and imported workers. This laid the groundwork for the revolution of 1978. 
]]> 2017-11-27 10:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mppsm15/swe76sf3em3x/wish/210321413 Women's clothing mppsm15 https://padlet.com/mppsm15/swe76sf3em3x/wish/210324073
It might be
 shocking today, 
but women of
 that time also
took a modern  
when it came to
 fashion. They
 would dress upjust like their Western counterparts and would even show some skin. These old magazine scans give us a rough idea of what a woman could wear at that time.
Today the women’s dress code in Iran is way more conservative than back in the ‘70s; now, they need to cover their hair, necks, and arms. Nevertheless, they are still allowed to chose the design and the colour of their clothing

]]> 2017-11-27 10:33:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mppsm15/swe76sf3em3x/wish/210324073 mppsm15 https://padlet.com/mppsm15/swe76sf3em3x/wish/210324449 2017-11-27 10:34:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mppsm15/swe76sf3em3x/wish/210324449 Family structure in Iran saniyan https://padlet.com/mppsm15/swe76sf3em3x/wish/210353324 --> The father or the husband is the head of the family. He holds authority over women, children and property. He even controls what the children study and how they act.
--> The culture is adult oriented with parents making major decisions for their children such as whom they should marry and what profession they should choose.
--> Families are extended, and sometimes all the members stay in the same house. 
--> For Iranians having children is a blessing.
-->  Traditionally boys were preferred over girls. The physician delivering baby boys was paid twice as much in terms of rations and wages.
--> Quite often the gender of the newborn would decide the status and position of the mother in the household, especially if the husband had more than one wife.]]> 2017-11-27 12:21:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mppsm15/swe76sf3em3x/wish/210353324 Religion omn https://padlet.com/mppsm15/swe76sf3em3x/wish/210454022 Zoroastrianism was once the majority religion, though today Zoroastrians number only in the tens of thousands. Iran is home to the second largest Jewish community in the Muslim World and the Middle East. The two largest non-Muslim religious minorities in Iran are the Bahá'í Faith and Christianity.]]> 2017-11-27 15:27:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mppsm15/swe76sf3em3x/wish/210454022 Women's right/oppression adelaided https://padlet.com/mppsm15/swe76sf3em3x/wish/210511996 °Less rights
°Work as good housewives
°Less worked outside ('feminine' jobs)
°Divorce rules
°Shah --> Unveiled the women of Iran in 1929
°Marriage at age 15
°Literary rates from 17.9% to 35.5% (from 1966 to 1976)
°Men has power
°More freedom for modern women]]> 2017-11-27 16:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mppsm15/swe76sf3em3x/wish/210511996 Education adelaided https://padlet.com/mppsm15/swe76sf3em3x/wish/210514716 °Schools were bilingual
°Incorporates religion
°No mandatory veil at school
°Representation of the Shah
°5 years of primary school
°3 years of lower secondary education
°3 years of upper secondary education

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