Iran Universities To Ban Women From 77 Fields of Study 585
New submitter jasper160 writes "An August 20th, 2012 announcement from Iran places restrictions on female university students. Iran will be cutting 77 fields of study from the female curriculum, making them male-only fields. Science and engineering are among those affected by the decree. 'The Oil Industry University, which has several campuses across the country, says it will no longer accept female students at all, citing a lack of employer demand. Isfahan University provided a similar rationale for excluding women from its mining engineering degree, claiming 98% of female graduates ended up jobless.' The announcement came soon after the release of statistics showing that women were graduating in far higher numbers than men from Iranian universities and were scoring overall better than men, especially in the sciences. Senior clerics in Iran's theocratic regime have become concerned about the social side-effects of rising educational standards among women."
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi wrote to the UN that this effort is "part of the recent policy of the Islamic Republic, which tries to return women to the private domain inside the home as it cannot tolerate their passionate presence in the public arena,"
Is it too late to get UN sanctions on them? (Score:4, Funny)
I'm sure if the world scorns them strongly enough on this they'll come around on human rights issues.
/is sarcasm dead? ok I'll turn out the lights.
Re:Bringing down the girls! (Score:5, Funny)
They're just trying to head things off there.
jk
77 fields of study (Score:5, Funny)
Now, you kids get off my lawn.
Re:This is what you get... (Score:5, Funny)
R'amen
Re:This is what you get... (Score:4, Funny)
Heh "broad" brush.
Re:Is it too late to get UN sanctions on them? (Score:5, Funny)
Did you see the latest statistics about how women are better than men?
Yes, I am concerned, because if they are better they will get the better jobs, have more power, and start making us their bitch
I agree, I am scared of women too.
I know, lets make it so they will never succeed!
Brilliant!
Is this about the Iranians or the Republicans? (Score:4, Funny)
I didn't recognize Todd Akin as being an Iranian name, but the nature of the thinking seems about the same.
Legitimate oppression (Score:5, Funny)
As long as it is legitimate oppression. Because the woman's body has a way to just shut the whole thing down and deal with the oppression.
So they'll be fine. Everything will work out fine.
Re:Dark ages (Score:5, Funny)
See, this would never happen in the US. Women's bodies have mechanisms to shut down legitimate denials of educational opportunities.
Re:Science teams are better when ... (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps you'd like to rephrase that a bit, HR might be reading.
Re:This is what you get... (Score:3, Funny)
Bender programs in Lisp?
Re:This is what you get... (Score:5, Funny)
I hate these sorts of absolute arguments from you "capital-A" Atheists. You realize you come off almost as extreme as fundamentalist theists, right?
Nope, that's impossible. We're Atheists, which automatically makes us right in all matters religious. See? Logic. Maybe if you weren't so dedicated to your unprovable invisible man in the sky, you'd be more rational and accept our unprovable lack of an invisible man in the sky, which is obviously rightier than you.
Re:Is it too late to get UN sanctions on them? (Score:4, Funny)
An obvious shoe waiting to be dropped.
s/dropped/thrown/
Much more fitting...
Re:This is what you get... (Score:2, Funny)
You see, in order to claim that something doesn't exist, you have to first admit that it does exist, even if only as a construct of the human mind. So, by outwardly claiming that god (or God or dog or whatever you call the concept) doesn't exist, they are in fact admitting their belief in said concept's existence.
FYI, this is a fun one to break out when some asshole, fundamental extremist 'atheist' is shoving their theological dogma down your throat; the look that pops up on their faces is fucking priceless.
Re:Is it too late to get UN sanctions on them? (Score:4, Funny)