In 1932, Iraq was declared independent and in 1958 was declared a Republic as a member of the League of Nations. As Doreen Ingrams argues, instability was dominating the region until 1968 when "the Ba’ath Party took control over the President Al Bakr and Iraq began to enjoy a period of stability" (p. 28). Majda al-Haidari, wife of Raouf al-Chadirchi, has sometimes been said to be the first woman in Baghdad to have appeared unveiled in the 1930s,Haifa Zangana: City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance but the Communist Amina al-Rahal, sister of Husain al-Rahal, have also been named as the first unveiled role model in Baghdad.Zahra Ali: Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation In the 1930s and 1940s, female College students gradually started to appear unveiled, and most upper- and middle class urban women in Iraq were said to be unveiled by 1963.Gustav Adolph Sallas, United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Labor Law and Practice in Iraq, 1963, s. 5
