Upon obtaining a medical degree, Parsa became a biology teacher in Jeanne d’Arc Highschool in capital. At the school she came to know Farah Diba, one of her students at this school, and who would later become wife of King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
It was the first time in the history of homeland that a woman occupied a cabinet position. Farrokhroo Parsa was executed by firing squad on 8 May 1980 in capital at the outset of the Revolution.
