Gender Policies
From the age of eight, females were not allowed to be in direct contact with men, other than a close blood relative, husband, or in-law (see mahram). Other restrictions were:
- Women should not appear in the streets without a blood relative and without wearing a Burqa (also Burkha, Burka or Burqua).
- Women should not wear high-heeled shoes as no man should hear a woman’s footsteps lest it excite him.
- Women must not speak loudly in public as no stranger should hear a woman's voice.
- All ground and first floor residential windows should be painted over or screened to prevent women being visible from the street.
- The photographing or filming of women was banned as was displaying pictures of females in newspapers, books, shops or the home.
- The modification of any place names that included the word "women." For example, "women's garden" was renamed "spring garden".
- Women were forbidden to appear on the balconies of their apartments or houses.
- Ban on women's presence on radio, television or at public gatherings of any kind.
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