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Show 38 The farmers themselves divided into two groups: were peasants who did not farmers that owned land. of too and anything own (1) those merely worked the land; and (2) those The second group constituted less than 5 percent farming population. However, the fate of both groups was the same --the poor peasants gave all the results of their labor to the landowners and the free farmers gave some of the products and the rest of that to the feudalists had wealth, power or social or to the officers of the thieves. government Neither of these two groups prestige. Women A the sense thinking of equality between of the founders of of Iran 2,500 years ago. women--" a by his ceremonies in place of a act Zoroastrianism, as guardian judge and, a played women Zoroastrianism gave law, father, become and entitled to manage her woman was sent her husband at men of changed. saying that equal an property a son religion status in law to on her own, repre who had been disinherited in certain cases, perform religious priest" (Pahlavi, 1967:10). The Arab attitude towards a woman was minor role in the first national With the invasion of the Arabs in the seventh women a "an animal with century the position of women more is typified by hair than brains" their (Pahlavi, 1967:11). The invasion. position and rights of "The Mongols' women own norms became still worse of social behavior after the were Mongols extremely |
