Women in Iran Are Ready to Show They Mean Business

Women in Iran are ready to make career gains in a way few of their peers can in the Gulf Arab world.

The Surprising Way Women are Doing Business in Iran

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Iranian money manager Mona Hajialiasghar got her first big career break the same year the world took notice of her country’s nuclear ambitions.

Thirteen years after starting out as an asset manager in Tehran, she’s chief operating officer of Kardan Investment Bank, which oversees about $300 million invested in Iran. As her country edges toward an historic agreement that promises to plug it back into the global economy, she already sees more women joining her.