Shams ol-Moluk Mosahab

Shams ol-Moluk Mosahab
Member of the Senate
In office 1963–1980
Personal details
Born	1913 Tehran, Persia
Died	1997

Shams ol-Moluk Mosahab (Persian: شمس‌الملوک مصاحب, 1913–1997) was an Iranian educator and politician. In 1963 she was one of the first two women appointed to the Senate.

Biography[]

Mosahab was born in Tehran in 1913, the third child of the politician .^[1] Her brother Gholamhossein later became a mathematician. She attended Namus primary school and then the Higher Teacher Training College.^[1] She then became one of the first group of women to be admitted to the University of Tehran,^[2] becoming the first woman to earn a PhD in the subject in 1945.^[1] She subsequently attended Laval University in Canada and the University of Florida and University of Indiana in the United States, studying for a second doctorate.^[1]

After returning to Iran, she began lecturing at the University of Tehran,^[1] subsequently becoming a headteacher at the Parvin, Shahdokht, and Nurbaksh girls high schools, as well as serving as director of the Higher Education and Teacher Training department in the Ministry of Education.^[1][3] She later worked for the Ministry of Culture and became Deputy Minister of Education.^[1]

Mosahab also campaigned for women's suffrage.^[1] Women were granted the right to vote in 1963, and following the parliamentary elections that year, Mosahab was one of two women appointed to the Senate.^[2] She remained in the Senate until 1980.^[1]

She died in 1997.^[3]

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