Reply With Quotemaybe they want to give competition to saudi arabia?
how sad that the main worry of the leaders of that country is that too much womens are getting university carreers and having less kids,cuz yeah thats a country in development needs.......
Report: Women banned from Iranian university programs
Islamic Republic's leading institutions bar female students from studying popular subjects
Ynetnews
Universities in Iran have announced that dozens of academic programs in the coming year will be "single-gender," which effectively means they will be exclusively offered to men, the Telegraph reported Monday.
According to the report, 36 universities have said that 77 BA and BSc degrees will no longer be coed. Under the new policy, female students will be excluded from a broad range of studies in some of the country's leading institutions, including English literature, English translation, hotel management, archaeology, nuclear physics, computer science, electrical engineering, industrial engineering and business management.
In recent years, female students in Iran have outperformed men, a trend that defies the traditional male-dominated outlook of the country's religious leaders, the British newspaper said. Women who passed this year's university entrance exams outnumbered men three to two.
The trend has raised concerns among senior clerics in the Islamic Republic's theocratic regime about the social changes brought forth by the rising educational standards among women, including declining birth and marriage rates.
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maybe they want to give competition to saudi arabia?
how sad that the main worry of the leaders of that country is that too much womens are getting university carreers and having less kids,cuz yeah thats a country in development needs.......
It seems the majority if Iran's issues arise from these ****tard clerics. I am sure the people know it but are too fearful to say or do anything about it.The trend has raised concerns among senior clerics in the Islamic Republic's theocratic regime about the social changes brought forth by the rising educational standards among women
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It depends if they wanna study legitimate popular issue or just any popular issue....!!!!
This is strange from my personnel experience, but not surprising. I worked for sometime at a R&D institute and there's a lot of foreign exchange researchers and university students and there were more Iranian researchers than you would expect. Including Iranian female researchers that were there for three year projects and then every year would be at least one doing a short internship.
Cheers,
Kind of like saying, we are working our way back to the stone age. Brilliance is not gender specific. They are doing us all a special favor by reducing their capabilities by half.
It wouldn't surprise me the theocrates would pull a bull**** move like that, out of some traditional norms to keep a religious status quo. I feel sorry for all the women who worked so hard to get where they are only to have the program your going into becoming forbidden to them. Seems to be the biggest screwjob they ever got in their lives. It's just not right at all.
And this is surprising how exactly?
Can't say its surprising, but I doubt that this is what they had in mind back in 1979.
This is suprising, because Iran is not Saudi Arabia. I was there in 90's stay in Tehran with Iranian family (mother and her daughter). Every women I meet was highly educated...
There's three types of universities in Iran; private, state and "theocratic" universities. Does this apply to all of them?
Good question! They say 90% will stay the same and the change is made to create balance. Since they are doing badly, maybe it's affirmative action for men.
The propaganda war is baffling. Not only because it makes it like it is a Supreme Council decision, which it is not, but that it passes under the radar the original Telegraph report which has this little thingie here;
Under the new policy, women undergraduates will be excluded from a broad range of studies in some of the country's leading institutions, including English literature, English translation, hotel management, archaeology, nuclear physics, computer science, electrical engineering, industrial engineering and business management.The Oil Industry University, which has several campuses across the country, says it will no longer accept female students at all, citing a lack of employer demand. Isfahan University provided a similar rationale for excluding women from its mining engineering degree, claiming 98% of female graduates ended up jobless.
Not mentionning that Iran has roughly way above the listed 36* universities and that the ones that targeted women, do so because of regional mentalities. However I see this being challenged and overturned as the IRI constitution is still up and running.
Did however any one checked the Telegraph´s source?
If there's unemployment in a specific sector, the university department should be reduced instead of applying gender discrimination.
If 98% of female graduates are unemployed in a specific sector, this means that gender discrimination is also largely applied by the employers.
It seems that despite this "ban" their women still will do better then in most other countries when it comes to science.However, the science and higher education minister, Kamran Daneshjoo, dismissed the controversy, saying that 90% of degrees remain open to both sexes and that single-gender courses were needed to create "balance".
Iran has highest ratio of female to male undergraduates in the world, according to UNESCO. Female students have become prominent in traditionally male-dominated courses like applied physics and some engineering disciplines.]
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