Hijab in Iran: To Be or Not to Be
Risks Timeline by Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher
Comments on Contemporary Risks by Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher
From other Research Activities of Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher:
04 June 2023 at 01:28. Indeed in the 1970s, the time was different even in Israel. when I was a child in primary school, the School Management tried to force me to participate in Girls’ Classes-Cooking and Embroidery instead of Boys’ Classes-Electronics and Carpentry, so I refused and started my ‘First Revolution’ to participate in the Boys’ Classes-Electronics and Carpentry. To make the story short, eventually, ‘Everyone’ came to see how the Girl handled Electronics and Carpentry after the manager of the school got Special Permission from the Israeli Ministry of Education to allow me to participate in the Boys’ Classes-Electronics and Carpentry. Since the 1970s, it’s become even harder to force Girls to do things against their wishes, so in the long-run, forcing Hijab in Iran is like ‘To Be or Not to Be’ for the Islamic Republic of Iran, because the share of the female young generation that opposes Hijab will increase over the time to the point of deterioration the political stability in Iran. To clarify my comment, I am not trying to give advice to Iran on what to do with Hijab or even what is right from the Feminism viewpoint, but only to raise the Risk for regime transformation/political instability in Iran if the current regime in Iran will hold a strict policy against the female young generation that opposes Hijab. Adaptation is always needed, especially in the case of a culture gap between generations.