Has The Government Reduced Female University Enrollment?
RFERL / Golnaz Esfandiari
22-Oct-2010 (one comment)

The head of Iran's Research and Planning Organization of Higher Studies has said that the number of male and female students in the Islamic republic is now equal.

Massoud Hadian Dehkordi has said that there are currently 3,790,859 students in the country, of which he said about 50.5 percent are men and about 49.5 percent women.

Previously it had been reported, based on official figures, that women made up 60-65 percent of university entrants.

Some Iranian officials had expressed worry over the rising numbers of women at universities, and said that it represented a threat to traditional values and that it would limit women's marriage opportunities.

In 2008, the Research Center of the Iranian parliament expressed concern over the trend, which it described as "alarming" and called on the government to stop it.

The center said that over the last two decades there'd been a 23 percent increase in the number of girls taking university entrance exams, with the number of girls who passed the tests nearly doubling -- to 65 percent -- over the same period.

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yolanda

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by yolanda on Sat Oct 23, 2010 08:07 AM PDT

Girls over there are smart and hard-working.....it is why so many of them are able to pass university entrance exams.......it is sad that the IRI bars qualified girls from going to college because of their gender......It is nonsense:

Some Iranian officials had expressed worry over the rising numbers of women at universities, and said that it represented a threat to traditional values and that it would limit women's marriage opportunities.


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