But I’m sure the supreme court in the Switzerland of the 1960s was all male too. Are there actually legal barriers to a woman being on the council or is it just implicit in “a woman can’t be a cleric”?
I’m sure the supreme court in the Switzerland of the 1960s was all male too.
I’m sure it didn’t vet candidates, so that’s not the point. The point is in Iran candidates are vetted by a small (and also all-male) council—which makes the democracy (both male voters and female voters in Iran) significantly smaller than in 1960s Switzerland.
sidenote: The candidates in Iran are first vetted by the all-male Guardian Council.
That’s something useful to point out. Up voted.
But I’m sure the supreme court in the Switzerland of the 1960s was all male too. Are there actually legal barriers to a woman being on the council or is it just implicit in “a woman can’t be a cleric”?
I’m sure it didn’t vet candidates, so that’s not the point. The point is in Iran candidates are vetted by a small (and also all-male) council—which makes the democracy (both male voters and female voters in Iran) significantly smaller than in 1960s Switzerland.
You are right that I missed the point. To give a different example of more vs. less democracy, I prefer 1960s Switzerland to modern Egypt.