Iran minister calls for gender segregated universities
Published: Thursday, August 21, 2008
00:07GMT—8:07PM/EST
GENDER – SEGREGATION – UNIVERSITIES
Washington, 20 August (IranVNC)—Iran’s minister of science, research and innovation on Wednesday emphasized again that it is necessary to implement a plan to segregate universities by gender, calling it “a common request among female university students.”
Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi told the Iranian Labor News Agency that female students want to continue their education “in an environment without worrying about being in contact with male students.”
The minister did not provide any sources for this information.
Iran established Farah Pahlavi Women’s University in 1964 [named after Iran’s last queen]. The institution was renamed al-Zahra University after the 1979 revolution.
A second women’s university, Hazrat-e Ma’soumeh, was established after the revolution in Qom, Iran’s center of Shiite religious scholarship.
Mehdi recently announced that a plan to establish universities exclusive to women would soon be implemented throughout every province.
Source: Iranian Labor News Agency
© IranVNC 2008. All rights reserved.
(Original article written in Persian.)