List of female members of the Cabinet of Iran
This is a list of women who have served as members of the Cabinet of Iran.
List
No. | Portrait | Name | Office | Term in office | Affiliation | Head of government | ||
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Assumed | Left | |||||||
1 | Farrokhroo Parsa | Minister of Education | 1968 | 1971 | New Iran Party | Amir Abbas Hoveida | ||
2 | Mahnaz Afkhami | Minister without portfolio for Women's Affairs | 1976 | 1978 | Resurgence Party | |||
Jamshid Amouzegar | ||||||||
3 | Masoumeh Ebtekar | Head of Department of Environment | 1997 | 2005 | Islamic Iran Participation Front | Mohammad Khatami | ||
2013 | 2017 | Hassan Rouhani | ||||||
Vice President for Women's and Family Affairs | 2017 | 2021 | ||||||
4 | Fatemeh Javadi | Head of Department of Environment | 2005 | 2009 | — | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | ||
5 | Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi | Minister of Health | 2009 | 2013 | Zeynab Society | |||
6 | Nasrin Soltankhah | Head of National Elites Foundation | 2009 | 2013 | — | |||
7 | Fatemeh Bodaghi | Vice President for Legal Affairs | 2009 | 2013 | — | |||
8 | Maryam Mojtahedzadeh | Vice President for Women's and Family Affairs | 2013 | — | ||||
9 | Elham Aminzadeh | Vice President for Legal Affairs | 2013 | 2016 | — | Hassan Rouhani | ||
10 | Shahindokht Molaverdi | Vice President for Women's and Family Affairs | 2013 | 2019 | Islamic Iran Participation Front | |||
11 | Zahra Ahmadipour | Head of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization | 2016 | 2017 | Islamic Association of University Instructors | |||
12 | Laya Joneydi | Vice President for Legal Affairs | 2017 | 2021 | — | |||
13 | Ensieh Khazali | Vice President for Women's and Family Affairs | 2021 | 2024 | — | Ebrahim Raisi |
See also
References
- Jamileh Kadivar (2016), "Chapter 8: Women and Executive Power", in Tara Povey (ed.), Women, Power and Politics in 21st Century Iran, Routledge, ISBN 9781134779895