Women cannot serve in certain occupations, such as the military, and, until just last month, women were not allowed to be judges. It is difficult for a married woman to divorce her spouse, yet for men the right to divorce is unquestioned and done with ease. Married women in Iran who wish to leave the country for any reason must first obtain the permission of their husbands. Despite these restrictions, females in Iran are hardly the fragile flowers that their legal limitations might imply. In any organization, any family, the main role is the woman's.
Some women pretend to agree with their husbands, but they usually have a better idea.
Their leadership is hidden. Taerpoor, like many Iranian women, is comfortable with hejab, the Islamic dress code which dictates that women's heads and bodies must be entirely covered in public. For two years after the 1979 revolution there was no law about women wearing the veil. But it was thought that women should be valued because of their talent and intelligence, not because of their bodies. It is clear in the Koran that women are to be covered.