Female Householders Up 26.8%

The number of female head of households in Iran increased by 26.8% from 356,117 in the Iranian year ending March 2012 to 439,985 in the year ending March 2020. 
A female householder is defined as a single or married woman older than 18 years old who is the sole or main income producer due to reasons, such as divorce, separation or husband’s death, incarceration, addiction or missing-in-action.
According to a report by the Center of Statistics of the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare, the population of working female householder also rose by 23.1% from 339,284 in the year ending March 2012 to 417,566 in the year ending March 2020.
Female householders’ economic participation rate and their unemployment rate stood at 12.5% and 5.1%, respectively, in the year ending March 2020.
In the same year, the economic participation rate and unemployment rate of women heading a one-person household, i.e., single women living alone stood at 8.8% and 6.5%, respectively.