Identifying patterns affecting women's political participation after the Islamic Revolution of Iran

Ketabi, Amirali; Menati, Ayoub; Ashayeri, Taha

Identifying patterns affecting women's political participation after the Islamic Revolution of Iran

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Amirali Ketabi ¹

Ayoub Menati ²

Taha ashayeri ³

¹ Member of the Scientific Council of Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

² Assistant Professor of Regional Studies, Department of Law and Political Science, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Ilam, Ilam, Iran.

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran

Abstract

Political development; Today, it has become a trans-gender issue and women play and participate in political issues as much as men. The criteria for political development are the realization of democracy and political democracy, equality of opportunity, political justice, and the absence of obstacles and discrimination for women's political participation. The main goal of the research is to understand and identify the patterns affecting women's political participation after the Islamic Revolution of Iran. The research method is an inductive qualitative meta-synthesis in the period from 2002 to 2024, which was conducted using a non-probability (intentional) sampling method from 123 scientific documents (extracted from the scientific databases of Normags, Mag Iran, and Iran Doc). After screening and selection,69 scientific documents were selected as the sample size and entered the analysis phase. The results show that the patterns affecting women's political participation in six macro-social indicators (social capital; socio-civil commitment; social development; social meritocracy; social acceptance); Economic (economic capital, job status, class-financial mobility; financial-job security); cultural (media literacy; linguistic capital; religious-Islamic identity; media consumption; cultural norms; cultural capital); psychological (motivation for progress; positive perception, social status; personal independence); political (political belonging and identity; political capital; political culture; political literacy; sense of political effectiveness, political motivation, political socialization; political development; desirable political governance); and demographic (education level, employment status, place of residence, socio-economic base) have been identified and counted.

Keywords

"Women's political participation"

"political development"

"political capital"

"cultural norms"

Subjects

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