Unemployment reaches 40% among young women in Iran

NCRI - Unemployment among women stands at above 20 percent in nearly two thirds of Iran's provinces, according to the regime'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 stands at over 40%, IRNA said.

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.

Official statistics show unemployment rates among young women to stand at 82.8% in Kohgiluyeh & 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 & Bakhtiari Province.

In August, officials of the Iranian regime acknowledged that 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.