Iranian women are victims of violence in the home as well as violence by strangers.
Women workers face the most difficult conditions in Iran. In small workshops they earn the equivalent of 11 pounds a week for 10- 12 hours work every week. For these women , the burden of working long hours is combined with the task of looking after children , the home and the elderly in the home. For the majority of Iranian women last year has been once more, in the words of Feminist Johanna Brenner, the worst of times , however we are well aware that inequality between men and women persist in every aspect of social, economic and political life throughout the world. Unity Iran has joined the call for the Global Women s strike on the 8 th of March 2001 to join forces with women in 65 countries.