Democratic Organization of Iranian Women

Not to be confused with Women's Organization of Iran.

Organization of Iranian Women
Founded	18 February 1943; 81 years ago (1943-02-18)
Newspaper	Bidari-e Ma
Ideology	Marxist feminism
National affiliation	Tudeh Party of Iran
International affiliation	Women's International Democratic Federation
Slogan	Persian: ما هم در این خانه حقی داریم "We, too, have rights in this house"[1]
Website
tdzi.org
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The Democratic Organization of Iranian Women (DAW; Persian: تشکیلات دموکراتیک زنان ایران) is the women's wing of the Tudeh Party of Iran.

Led by Maryam Firouz,^[2] it was founded in 1943 as the 'Organization of Iranian Women' (OIW) (Persian: تشکیلات زنان ایران, romanized: Tashkilat-i Zanan-i Iran) and joined Women's International Democratic Federation in 1947.^[1]

The organization "demanded radical transformations in the laws governing the rights of women in the family and at the workplace", according to Hammed Shahidian.^[3] They published a monthly magazine named Bidari-e Ma (lit. 'Our Awakening'), edited by Zahra Eskandari-Bayat.^[1]

OIW was banned in 1949, along with Tudeh itself and other affiliates, but the party managed to revive it in 1951 with another name: 'Democratic Organization of Iranian Women'.^[1]

References

1. Paydar, Parvin (1995). Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran. Cambridge University Press. pp. 124–5. ISBN 978-0-521-59572-8.
2. Behrooz, Maziar (August 2001). "Tudeh Factionalism and the 1953 Coup in Iran". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 33 (3): 363–82. doi:10.1017/S0020743801003026. JSTOR 259456. S2CID 162990418.
3. Hammed, Shahidian (May 1994). "The Iranian Left and the "Woman Question" in the Revolution of 1978-79". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 26 (2): 223–47. doi:10.1017/S0020743800060220. JSTOR 164734. S2CID 163000506.

External links

• Official website