An interesting editorial at Christian Science Monitor looks at the implications of Iran’s election fraud allegations on women.  Although female candidates were prohibited from running, women in Iran are visibly speaking out and protesting the results of the election in which incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the “landslide winner.”  President Ahmadinejad has done very little to promote women’s empowerment and has  been known to jail women leaders of the One Million Signatures Campaign, a movement to reform Iran’s legal system to end gender discrimination.  His main opposition candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, a former prime minister, was well regarded among Iranian women and ran his campaign with promises to end discriminatory laws against women, appoint women to high positions, and disband the morality police that arrest women for immodesty in dress and behavior.

Read the full editorial here.