Anger as Iran bans women from universities
Iranian Human Rights activist, Shirin Ebadi
From the Telegraph:
Female students in Iran have been barred from more than 70 university degree courses in an officially-approved act of sex-discrimination which critics say is aimed at defeating the fight for equal women's rights.
In a move that has prompted a demand for a UN investigation by Iran'smost celebrated human rights campaigner, the Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, 36 universities have announced that 77 BA and BSc courses in the coming academic year will be "single gender" and effectively exclusive to men.
It follows years in which Iranian women students have outperformed men, a trend at odds with the traditional male-dominated outlook of the country's religious leaders. Women outnumbered men by three to two in passing this year's university entrance exam.
Senior clerics in Iran's theocratic regime have become concerned about the social side-effects of rising educational standards among women, including declining birth and marriage rates.
2 comments:
As my son (who was 6 at the time) once said as we were driving down I 495 near Boston, and he spied a woman driving a pickup "Why isn't she home making tuna fish?"
This should be the motto for Iran. A fine nation where every intelligent woman in the USA should be compelled to spend a year.
You started your son young, huh Epa?
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