{"id":19189,"date":"2015-09-27T13:43:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T12:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/women\/19189-unemployment-reaches-40-among-young-women-in-iran"},"modified":"2023-01-15T21:36:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T20:36:49","slug":"unemployment-reaches-40-among-young-women-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/women\/unemployment-reaches-40-among-young-women-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment reaches 40% among young women in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Homeless-500\" class=\" size-full wp-image-43828\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/08\/Homeless-500.jpg\" alt=\"Homeless-500\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Homeless-500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Homeless-500-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NCRI &#8211; Unemployment among women stands at above 20 percent in nearly two thirds of Iran&#8217;s provinces, according to the regime&#8217;s own statistics.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate is even higher among young women, the official state news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate among women between the ages of 15 and 24 in Iran stands at over 40%, IRNA said.<\/p>\n<p>In Fars and Mazandaran provinces, 37.8% and 31.8% of women respectively are unemployed. The numbers rise to 51.3% and 65.6% among young women.<\/p>\n<p>Official statistics show unemployment rates among young women to stand at 82.8% in Kohgiluyeh &amp; Boyer-Ahmad Province, 70.5% in Alborz Province, 68.7% in Ilam Province, 77.3% in Tehran Province, 65.6% in Mazandaran Province, and 62.3% in Chahar Mahal &amp; Bakhtiari Province.<\/p>\n<p>In August, <a href=\"http:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/women\/18975-iran-hundreds-of-thousands-of-girls-under-15-forced-into-marriage-in-past-decade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener noreferrer\">officials of the Iranian regime acknowledged<\/a>\u00a0that nearly 420000 Iranian girls under the age of 15 have been wed mainly to older men, some more than four times their age, over the past decade in Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCRI &ndash; Unemployment among women stands at above 20 percent in nearly two thirds of Iran&rsquo;s provinces, according to the regime&rsquo;s own statistics. The unemployment rate is even higher among young women, the official state news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday. The unemployment rate among women between the ages of 15 and 24 in Iran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-19189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-women","tag-updated"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Unemployment reaches 40% among young women in Iran - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NCRI - Unemployment among women stands at above 20 percent in nearly two thirds of Iran&#039;s provinces, according to the regime&#039;s own statistics. 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