List of female members of the Cabinet of Iran

This is a list of women who have served as members of the Cabinet of Iran.

List

No.		Portrait	Name	Office	Term in office		Affiliation	Head of government
					Assumed	Left
	1		Farrokhroo Parsa	Minister of Education	1968	1971	New Iran Party	Amir Abbas Hoveida
	2		Mahnaz Afkhami	Minister without portfolio for Women's Affairs	1976	1978	Resurgence Party
								Jamshid Amouzegar
	3		Masoumeh Ebtekar	Head of Department of Environment	1997	2005	Islamic Iran Participation Front	Mohammad Khatami
					2013	2017		Hassan Rouhani
				Vice President for Women's and Family Affairs	2017	2021
	4		Fatemeh Javadi	Head of Department of Environment	2005	2009	—	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
	5		Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi	Minister of Health	2009	2013	Zeynab Society
	6		Nasrin Soltankhah	Head of National Elites Foundation	2009	2013	—
	7		Fatemeh Bodaghi	Vice President for Legal Affairs	2009	2013	—
	8		Maryam Mojtahedzadeh	Vice President for Women's and Family Affairs	2013		—
	9		Elham Aminzadeh	Vice President for Legal Affairs	2013	2016	—	Hassan Rouhani
	10		Shahindokht Molaverdi	Vice President for Women's and Family Affairs	2013	2019	Islamic Iran Participation Front
	11		Zahra Ahmadipour	Head of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization	2016	2017	Islamic Association of University Instructors
	12		Laya Joneydi	Vice President for Legal Affairs	2017	2021	—
	13		Ensieh Khazali	Vice President for Women's and Family Affairs	2021	2024	—	Ebrahim Raisi
	14		Zahra Behrouz Azar	Vice President for Women's and Family Affairs	2024	Incumbent	—	Masoud Pezeshkian
	15		Shina Ansari	Head of Department of Environment	2024	Incumbent	—
	16		Farzaneh Sadegh	Minister of Roads and Urban Development	2024	Incumbent	—

See also

• List of female members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly

References

• Jamileh Kadivar (2016), "Chapter 8: Women and Executive Power", in Tara Povey (ed.), Women, Power and Politics in 21st Century Iran, Routledge, ISBN   9781134779895