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Pure
04-04-2007, 02:41 PM
Women graduates challenge Iran

By Frances Harrison
BBC News, Tehran

The number of women graduating from Iran's universities is overtaking the number of men, promising a change in the job market and, with it, profound social change.



In some subjects 70% of Iran's graduates are women

Twenty postgraduate students are sitting in a plush modern classroom listening to a lecture on environmental management at the Islamic Azad University - a private institution with 1.6 million students across Iran.

The room is darkened so the students can watch the lecturer's slide show comparing energy consumption around the world.

Three quarters of the students in this class are women - the five men in the class are huddled together in a corner.

As Professor Majid Abbaspour explains, this is a far cry from the past:

"When I was doing my bachelor's degree in Iran we had a class of 60 in mechanical engineering with only four women.

"Now the number has changed a lot - I think this may be because the attitudes of families have changed."

Well over half of university students in Iran are now women. In the applied physics department of Azad University 70% of the graduates are women - a statistic which would make many universities in the West proud.

It is a huge social shift since the 1979 Revolution: Iran's Islamic government has managed to convince even traditional rural families that it is safe to send their daughters away from home to study.

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جوري
04-04-2007, 04:21 PM
lol-- yes... that guy in the corner looks mighty unhappy and out of place... he has already assumed a defensive posture with his arms crossed...
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youngsister
04-04-2007, 09:09 PM
:sl: lol thanks for that sister! is great:), then again girls always tend to do well:D :w:
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Pure
04-06-2007, 12:07 AM
yeah subhanallah women are really well educated around the world. May Allah guide the women to bring up an Ummah who will be pious and have a strong eman.
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Nσσя'υℓ Jαииαн
04-06-2007, 12:11 AM
MashaAllah thats good :D Hopefully more Muslim countries will turn out that way, in a sense that people will know we are allowed to seek education :D

Ameen to the Du'a.

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Pure
04-06-2007, 07:09 PM
Just like the woman of the Ansar among the Sahabah!
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