Iran bans women from 77 degrees in college

[delalluvia]

Apparently the birth rate is declining as women are becoming educated in Iran and the clerics are worried women don't know their place. 

“Departments like agriculture and mining are unfit for the female nature,” the official also said.

With the move, women will no longer be capable of becoming engineers, nuclear physicists, archaeologists, business graduates and computer scientists as these and other departments in over 35 Iranian universities will henceforth only admit male students.

English literature, translation and hotel management are some of the other banned departments.

Another Iranian official said the move was designed to establish “balance” in the education system.

Some 65 percent of students in Iranian universities are women, and the country also has one of the highest female-versus-male graduation rates in the world.

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/140703/iran-bans-women-from-77-university-majors-including-engineering-physics-.html

[CellarDweller]

 

the women there have a huge, tough struggle in front of them.