47.3 Percent Unemployment Rate Among Young Women in 15 Provinces
NCRI - According to IRNA state news agency, the results of a workforce survey provided by regime’s bureau of statistics in summer of 2016 shows that unemployment rate among young women in 15 provinces is 47.3 percent.
Theses provinces are: Ardebil, Isfahan, Alborz, Ilam, Tehran, Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari, Khuzestan, Fars, Kordestan, Kermanshah, Kerman, Golestan, Gilan, Mazandaran and Yazd.
The issue of unemployment in Iran has different aspects; on one hand the unemployed are young and educated and on the other hand, unemployment is generally a feminine issue.
Part of the report by the state media is listed below:
Women’s unemployment is quite contrary to their desire for college education which is overall more than young boys, but due to the labor market’s unwillingness to absorb them, disappointment and frustration are the first achievements of women’s demand for jobs.
Referring to one of job centers in Tehran and talking to job seekers showed that young women are more willing to accept jobs than men.
Iranian society is now faced with various issues. Lack of proper job opportunities, educated unemployed, closure of businesses, immobility of labor market, and finally, high supply and low demand for workforce, all have joined hands to create conditions which prevent youth from easily entering the job market.
As the Economic Advisor to regime’s President ‘Masoud Nili’ announced this week, “high unemployment rate among women shows that the job demand in labor market still can’t meet the supply of workforce, due to which young women in the country are experiencing a 47.3 percent unemployment rate.”
Unemployment rate is high and will go even higher with the graduates in the past two, three years entering the market. The first result of unemployment is disappointment and frustration. A society experiencing an unemployment rate above 47 percent is subject to all kinds of social harms.
