Document Type : Research Article (Quantitative)

Authors

• Homa Zanjanizadeh ¹
• Ali Baghdar Delghosha ²

¹ Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran.

² M.A student, Department of History, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran.

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to investigate the process of establishing women's schools, in the form of establishing female primary schools during the constitutional period and between 1324 AH/1285 AH to 1330 AH/1291 AH. Examining this issue not only in terms of its occurrence in the constitutional period as the first period of education modernization experiences in Iran, but also in terms of the establishment of girls' schools, the role of women's writings in the press of this period in relation to the issue of women's right to education and Its design is important in the form of social demands. Also, in this period, women's active social presence has started for the first time in the form of a quasi-union, and women have begun to raise their social demands, in the meantime, the establishment of schools for girls has been the main social demand of Iranian women. This research, which has been compiled by documentary method with content analysis technique, shows the fruition of social efforts and the realization of women's social rights. An effort that, less than a decade after it was proposed in the press of the constitutional era, led to the establishment of girls' schools in different cities of Iran, on the basis of which, girls also enjoyed the right to education like boys.

Keywords

• social demands
• Iranian Women
• constitutional
• girls' schools
• elementary School