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‘Change’ for Iran women: Pastry chef rises to the occasion

Tehran, Iran (AFP) — She could have left Iran, as many of her contemporaries did, but Paris-trained pastry chef Shahrzad Shokouhivand decided to stay and work to make women’s lives better inside the country. And the icing on the cake? She and her husband now employ 70 people — mostly women. “It’s only by working here that we’ll change things in Iran,” said the 36-year-old, speaking to AFP in one of her two chic cafe-pastry […]