{"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. 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