Housekeeping is among one of the most important jobs. An international study comparing workforce conditions for women around the world ranked Iran 108th out of 110. In urban areas women make-up only 9.5 percent of the workforce, and in rural areas the percent is 8.8 percent. Khatami has not called for an end to the most savage and sadistic punishment in the world death by stoning. This form of torturous killing was initiated by fundamentalists when they came to power after the Islamic Revolution.
Law specifies the size of the stones and the method of burying a person to be stoned.
The purpose is to inflict great pain and suffering before death occurs. Since Khatami has been president at least seven people have been stoned to death in public, four of them women. She does not favor loosening restrictions on women that would give them more personal freedom or stop the most barbaric institutionalized violence against women. She supports the law that requires women to get their husband s permission to travel. Thus, a woman needs her husband s permission to make a trip.