“Excluding Women from Justice: The Roots of a Gender Apartheid”
After the 1979 Revolution, the Islamic Republic, relying on ideological interpretations of Sharia, completely removed women from judicial positions.
While in many Muslim-majority countries—from Tunisia and Morocco to Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Lebanon—women serve at the highest levels of the judiciary, Iran became one of the few countries where, through a political decision, half of society was barred from the right to judge and adjudicate.
In this episode, we examine:
- How this exclusion became the legal foundation of gender apartheid in the Islamic Republic,
- How the judiciary moved away from justice and became a tool of power,
- And why the silencing of women’s voices undermined judicial balance and ethics for a generation.
This part provides a historical and legal context for understanding the decline of justice in Iran.
The Ravi–Ham-Avā podcast series aims to expand the national discourse around universal values, democracy, the separation of religion and state, human rights, gender equality, and the preservation of Iran’s territorial integrity.
Within such a framework, we can move along the path of collective wisdom toward a free and dignified Iran—for all Iranians, regardless of belief, thought, gender, ethnicity, or background.
“Government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”