Gender and Politics; Critical Evaluation of Regulations with Regards to Woman and Family based on Program policies

This research attempts to examine the relationship between politics and gender through a critical evalutation of regulations with regards to woman and family based on program policies. All polices of development plans and regulations from third to ninth parliament are calssified by open coding with content analysis method and in encoding, having the most meaningful relationship with the implications of each policy and law is considered. However, classification of parliamentary policies based on the policies of development programs in the 7 groups, categorization of them into four classes and eventually an abstraction of policies is done. First, the alignment of parliamentary policies with the policies of development plans is examined and subsequently unconscious policies were identified as well as specific and neglected. Economy, culture, society and law are four elements that are considered in categorization of the relationship between family and state. In the last step, abstraction, research findings are indicated. Explaining the models of state and family interaction and the model in Iran and explanatory critique of state policies in the field of women and family are discussed at the end. After analysis, some solutions to family-state relation are discovered.