[4] Marzieh Hadidchi, one of the founders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, served as a military commander during the war.
[7] Journalist Maryam Kazemzadeh noted that a number of makeshift memorials set up during the war to women who were killed were removed by the Iranian government.
[8] During the height of the Iran-Iraq War, women made up a large portion of the domestic workforce in Iran, replacing men who were fighting, injured, or dead.
'[13] During the war, the Iraqi government offered children and wives of deceased soldiers with a small piece of land or sum of money to build a house, however the compensation was significantly less than those families were officially entitled to.
[14] During the latter years of the war, the Iraqi government launched plans to encourage women to quit their jobs and raise children in response to the death toll.
Kurdish organizations such as Komala, which engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Iranian government during the war, recruited hundreds of women into their military and political ranks.
[21] According to Laetitia Nanquette of SOAS, despite the fact that "from around the 1990s up to the present day, women have been the primary writers of Iranian fiction," they have mostly been absent from Iranian literature about the war, which "is usually written by men and contains nationalistic discourses, coupled with the discourse of martyrdom as the way to defend the version of Islam promoted as the only truth by the regime.