'Solve unemployment by barring women from work'

GVF -- Iranian Member of Parliament Mousa Ghorbani has said that the solution for resolving the problem of unemployment was to pass laws that would make it illegal for two members of the same family to work.

Ghorbani argued that the reason behind the hight rate of unemployment in Iran was that in some families the husband, wife and the children were all working while at the same time, there were people in other families who were still unemployed. The conservative MP added that if only a single person works in each family, the problem of unemployment in the country would be resolved.

When the MP was reminded by a reporter from the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA) that it was essential for more than one person to work in the family in order to afford a basic living, he simply replied, “actually, [in that case] life will move forward very well, your perception is wrong.”

“In fact, when women go to work, extra costs are created. When a woman goes to work, they [the family] have to pay a great deal of money for the child’s nursery school; they have to eat prepared food and this in itself costs a lot.”

While referring to Saudi Arabia as his ideal model, the member of the legal and judicial commission of the Iranian parliament continued, “a while ago, I was in Mecca. When you go to Saudi Arabia you do not see a single woman employee and if we implement this in Iran, many of the problems will be resolved.”