Meta-analysis of Iranian woman's knowledge system (case study; student articles and theses between 2007-2017)

Introduction
This article analyzes the content of two types of women's writing interests. The three conceptual systems of feminism, problematic, and paradigmatic are used as analytical tools to explore what topics attract women's attention, what methods they frequently use in their analysis, and what the basic pattern of their intellectual analysis is. Through this three-part conceptual system, a number of works were examined with regard to their methods and titles. Among a multitude of theoretical methods, which theoretical approach women often use for analysis is an interesting question for discovering their intellectual structure.
If we accept that the essence of thought is not the playground of dual male/female identities, but rather the realization of the sacred matter of thought in the context of education and the acquisition of thinking skills, then it is expected that women's cognitive faculties will increasingly approach the transcendental realm of thought, or philosophy. The long absence of women in the primary system of knowledge or philosophy is probably the result of a mental freezing in an atmosphere of feminist ideologies of contemporary man, because despite the greater education of contemporary women, philosophizing is still a male occupation. Therefore, if the rule of thinking is a non-sexual matter, why has the history of thinking always been the product of male thought? It seems that women's mental structure is a self-standing concern, and the teachings of modernism have also pushed them in this direction. However, a rereading of academic and public texts reminds us of the question: is the existence of a specific system of knowledge for Iranian women possible? If the answer is yes, what features of the way of thinking does this system have? Does this system of knowledge look at a specific aspect of social life, or is a specific aspect of human thought the subject of its reflections?
Methodology
The present article uses meta-analysis to analyze the content and structural form of a number of women's written works in order to extract possible components of the Iranian women's knowledge system. Several works by women from the last five to ten years were randomly selected. Then, the variables of subject, method, and analytical approach of the authors were analyzed from feminist, problematic, and paradigmatic perspectives. Through quantitative analysis of the indicators, it is determined which variables have attracted women's attention and thought. Although a large volume of national studies have addressed the issue of women, these works have rarely discussed women's intellectual lifestyles. The concept of a "knowledge system" has been used as an analogical concept in Iranology studies, but so far this conceptual tool has not been used to explain women's intellectual lifestyle. Therefore, meta-analysis of women's written texts, inspired by this conceptual tool, is the method used in the research. A surrealist or combined approach to written texts is likely to provide a new image of the nature and status of women's knowledge.
Discussion and Results
Field observations show that women often look at different areas of life from a problematic perspective, which is issue-centered. In the paradigmatic approach, by examining and analyzing thought patterns and methods in research works, some of the most frequent patterns among women are revealed, highlighting characteristics of the women's cognitive system. In fact, women's explanatory and analytical forms and patterns show where Iranian women stand within the boundaries of thought. In the problematic realm, being a woman has always been an unresolved issue, a subject both present and absent, so that every thinker, in confronting this mysterious element, exposes a manifestation of their own mind—be it heavenly or hellish—to the judgment of all. In such an atmosphere, it is as if even a woman herself cannot think about philosophy outside the realm of femininity. Therefore, a form of egoism has trapped her in the darkness of thought about the human condition. Within the paradigmatic index, the purpose is to identify which recurring thought patterns women writers tend to employ in their analysis. Are they subject-oriented or structuralist? With what theoretical methods do they analyze phenomena? In the problematic approach, an attempt is made to show that the concern driving women's writing is not philosophical ends, but rather her issue is lost dignity and rights within the scale of natural human rights. In total, through quantitative analysis of the three conceptual systems in the selected texts, the following results were obtained:

In the paradigmatic approach, approximately sixty percent of the written works employ methods of discourse analysis, phenomenology, and interpretive and reflective approaches. About forty percent of the studied works were conducted using quantitative-survey, documentary, and comparative analysis and other methods.
In the problematic approach, fifty-three percent of the studied works focused on individual rights and harms, and about forty-seven percent focused on women's social rights.
From a feminist perspective, fifty-two percent of the works addressed identity concerns and forty-eight percent addressed gender equality.Thus, out of one hundred percent of research interests, sixty-six percent of the works tended towards indicators related to the feminist and problematic approach.

Conclusion
The direction to which women pay more attention, among the multitude of interests, thought patterns, and theoretical methods, laid the first foundation for discovering and designing the Iranian women's knowledge system, or epistemology. The question of what concerns motivate women's writing, what percentage of women's issues focus on their identity and status, and fundamentally whether a special type of Iranian women's knowledge system can be designed by observing written texts, provided the main motivation for this research. Observations and findings from the study of three key concepts—feminism, problematic, and paradigmatic—show that thirty-eight percent of women's writing orientation, based on the works studied, adopts a feminist approach. Twenty-nine percent of the other works were analyzed with a problematic approach, and thirty-three percent were classified as paradigmatic approaches. In other words, quantitative indicators show that problematic and feminist approaches together account for sixty-seven percent of the orientation of the total works. Therefore, in quantitative observations covering the period from 2008 to 2020, it is observed that a large part of women's research and written works are devoted to explaining concerns related to identity, status, rights, and gender identity in general. As a result, there is a possibility that problematic and feminist approaches will continue to become the dominant approaches in women's research and written texts.