Shams ol-Moluk Mosahab

Shams ol-Moluk Mosahab (Persian: شمس‌الملوک مصاحب‎, 1913–1997) was an Iranian educator and politician. In 1963 she was one of the first two women appointed to the Senate.

Shams ol-Moluk Mosahab
Member of the Senate
In office
1963–1980
Personal details
Born1913
Tehran, Persia
Died1997

Biography

Mosahab was born in Tehran in 1913, the third child of the politician Mohammed Ali Mosahab.[1] Her brother Gholamhossein later became a mathematician. She attended Namus primary school and then the Higher Teacher Training College.[1] She then became one of the first group of women to be admitted to the University of Tehran,[2] becomnig the first woman to earn a PhD in the subject in 1945.[1] She subsequently attended Laval University in Canada and the University of Florida and University of Indiana in the United States, studying for a second doctorate.[1]

After returning to Iran, she began lecturing at the University of Tehran,[1] subsequently becoming a headteacher at the Parvin, Shahdokht, and Nurbaksh girls high schools, as well as serving as director of the Higher Education and Teacher Training department in the Ministry of Education.[1][3] She later worked for the Ministry of Culture and became Deputy Minister of Education.[1]

Mosahab also campaigned for women's suffrage.[1] Women were granted the right to vote in 1963, and following the parliamentary elections that year, Mosahab was one of two women appointed to the Senate.[2] She remained in the Senate until 1980.[1]

She died in 1997.[3]

References
  1. Iranian Women You Should Know: Shams ol-Moluk Mosahab Iran Wire, 12 May 2020
  2. Lois Beck & Guity Nashat (2004) Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic, p161
  3. Iranian Women’s Equality Calendar
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