With regards to women’s right to work, a husband can prevent his spouse from pursuing an occupation which he believes to be against family values or harmful to his or her reputation.42 There is no law prohibiting an employer from seeking a husband’s permission for a woman to work and employers have been reportedly requiring engaged or married women to provide a written statement of permission from their husbands in order to be hired.43 A number of provisions under Iranian labour laws protect the right to work without discrimination,44 yet forbids women from being employed in ‘dangerous, arduous or harmful work’.45 Women do not have access to certain positions in the Judiciary or the government. For example, women cannot be judges of the courts.46 Job benefits, such as social security and health insurance, family bonuses or paid overtime, inhere to the man.4748 Additionally, the Iranian labour code does not provide legal safeguards against discrimination in the hiring process. There is a mechanism working under the oversight of the Ministry of Labour that is tasked with receiving and analysing complaints related to labour standards. There is no readily available information with regards to the number of received complaints of gender-based discriminations to access employment or within the workplace, or whether such complaints have been addressed. There are no official and readily available reports of cases of discriminations in the workplace in the Islamic Republic of Iran, but in practice, non-discrimination provisions reportedly fail to be enforced.49 Reports of women facing discrimination, sexual harassment and assault, notably in the workplace, have gained more visibility recently including on social media in Iran.5051 Although not challenging the discriminatory legal framework described above, the Government engaged in several steps to address women’s access to employment in the Islamic Republic of Iran. By the order of President Rouhani, the Supreme Administrative Council reportedly decided to allocate 30% of the managerial positions to Iranian women. The Government also established a National Task Force on the Empowerment of Female Heads of Households in the field of development of employment and entrepreneurship and launched the Women's Business Development and Acceleration Center, which is aimed at “strengthening rural women's 42 Civil Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Art.1117 < https://shenasname.ir/laws/6664 > Human Rights Watch, ‘It’s A Men’s Club’: Discrimination against Women in Iran’s Labour Market, May 2017 44 Including Articles 6 and 28, The Labor Law: < https://shenasname.ir/laws/kar/1017 > 45 The Islamic Republic of Iran, Iranian Labour Code, 1990, Articles 6 and 75. 46 Regulations for the appointment of judges of the country: < http://rooznamehrasmi.ir/Laws/ShowLaw.aspx?Code=927 > 47 Articles 1102 to 1119, 1133 to 1142, Civil Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran. https://iranhrdc.org/the-civil-code-of-theislamic-republic-of-iran/ 48 Article 58 of the Social Security Act (adopted on June 24, 1975, and its subsequent amendments): < https://shenasname.ir/laws/tamin/1024 > 49 Human Rights Watch <https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/05/25/its-mens-club/discrimination-against-women-irans-job-market> 50 https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-35535269 51 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/22/iranians-break-taboos-with-their-own-version-of-metoo ; https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/09/09/iran-having-its-metoo-moment 43 5