The Impact of Cultural Understanding on Admission of Civil Right Laws Concerning Women

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This research paper is ‎based on a critical paradigm and the ontology of such a paradigm is based on historical realism. Following this line of thinking the ‎relations of the world life of different classes of women and the approval of the civil legal system and ‎the influential factors on these relations were addressed. Using grounded theory we interviewed ‎‏25‏‎ female thinkers teaching at universities. We attempted to find the women’s cultural values and its relation with the acceptance of civil rights laws.‎ From the viewpoint of interviewees, some parts of the law are in favor of women and some others are ‎not. Furthermore, even those parts that are legally in favor of women, in terms of enforcement, are not guaranteed‎. The legal system is deficient regarding women’s rights. This is because of the ‎prevalence of masculine orientation and discrimination in the legislative system. They argue that the law is in accordance with the traditional community, civil law legislators, and avoiding a profound attention to the women’s life experience. Altogether, the civil legal system does not pay suitable attention to women’s life-world.

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Journal of Social Problems of Iran
Volume 6, Issue 2
November 2014
Pages 305-326

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