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
No.		Portrait	Name	Office	Assumed	Left	Affiliation	Head of government
	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	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
				Head of Department of Environment	2013	2017		Hassan Rouhani
				Vice President for Women's and Family Affairs	2017	Incumbent		Hassan Rouhani
	4		Fatemeh Javadi	Head of Department of Environment	2005	2009	N/A	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
	5		Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi	Minister of Health	2009	2013	Zeynab Society
	6		Nasrin Soltankhah	Head of National Elites Foundation	2009	2013	N/A
	7		Fatemeh Bodaghi	Vice President for Legal Affairs	2009	2013	N/A
	8		Maryam Mojtahedzadeh	Vice President for Women's and Family Affairs	2013		N/A
	9		Elham Aminzadeh	Vice President for Legal Affairs	2013	2016	N/A	Hassan Rouhani
	10		Shahindokht Molaverdi	Vice President for Women's and Family Affairs	2013	2017	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	Incumbent	N/A

Jamileh Kadivar (2016), "Chapter 8: Women and Executive Power", in Tara Povey (ed.), Women, Power and Politics in 21st Century Iran, Routledge, ISBN 9781134779895

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