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Minister answers call for gender segregation in universities

by Zamaneh Media
September 10, 2011
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Minister answers call for gender segregation in universities
Kamran Daneshjoo

Iran’s Assembly of Experts is calling on officials to institute gender segregation in Iranian universities, prompting Iran’s Minister of Science and Technology to announce: “Women’s Colleges will be established all across Iran.”

Kamran Daneshjoo told Fars news agency yesterday that “women’s colleges” will be established in every province, adding: “This is about keeping Islamic customs and limits, and the Islamization of universities will go much further than this.”

He said: “Prior to the Revolution (1979) there was one women-only university, which was renamed the Al-Zahra University after the Revolution. Thirty-two years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, we do not have any other women-only colleges.”

Daneshjoo added that students have a “right” to gender-segregated universities, and establishing such colleges is his ministry’s top priority.

The Assembly of Experts convened on Thursday and agreed to call for the establishment of gender-segregated universities “to protect morality and guard the young generation.”

Two months ago, however, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged the ministry to stop working toward segregated universities and also called for a halt to the forced retirement of professors suspected of being too liberal.

Meanwhile, Health Minister Marzieh Dastjerdi has told reporters that medical schools teach both male and female anatomies; therefore, gender-segregation is not possible there.
 

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