Showkat Malek Jahanbani

Showkat Malek Jahanbani (Persian: شوکت ملک جهانبانی, born 1908) was an Iranian educator and politician. In 1963 she was one of the first group of women elected to the National Consultative Assembly.

Biography

Jahanbani was born in 1908. She attended Tehran Teachers Training College and subsequently became a 'pioneer in girl's education', establishing several schools and becoming headmistress of a school in southern Tehran.

Women were granted the right to vote in 1963, and in the parliamentary elections that year, Jahanbani was one of six women elected to the National Consultative Assembly. She was re-elected in 1967 and 1971, and then had one term in the Senate.