A Woman Who Sacrificed Herself for Women's Rights

After Khomeini made it compulsory for women who worked in the public sector, including university staff to wear the hijab, Dr. Darabi resisted the order and refused to wear it. She even went to meet the president, Bani-Sadr, the most powerful man in the country after Khomeini at that time and voiced against the compulsory hijab.But as she told her sister, the state wanted to break her. She eventually was fired from her post as head of the psychiatry department of Melli (Beheshti) University.