Women's Right to Vote · Haqq-e Ra'y-e Zanan

Culture of origin: Iranian · Historical

Holiday sources: Iran

Women's suffrage was part of the Shah's White Revolution, a six-point reform programme announced on 9 January 1963 and opposed by the clergy and big landowners; Khomeini called for a boycott. In the referendum of 26 January 1963 women voted at their own ballot boxes, and on 3 March the government made women's suffrage official by decree. On 17 September 1963 Iranian women voted in parliamentary elections for the first time.