Iran’s Science and Higher Education Ministry has banned women from enrolling in 77 university departments on the grounds that there is no work for them once they graduate from post-secondary education, according to the Telegraph.
“Our experience in the past showed us that even if women graduate from these departments, they fail to work actively in these fields,” a ministry official said.
“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. Read More