The right of equal education for women is recognized in most of the countries around the world but under this regime, discrimination against women is a policy priority.
In 1984 girls could not enroll in 91 subjects of the 169 total subjects, most of them in technical and engineering fields.
According to a law passed in 1985 unmarried girls were banned from going abroad to study.
In 1998 the Organization of Assessment authorities affiliated with the Science Ministry and some of the other regime’s authorities demanded gender rationing to limit the number of female students.
In 2003 the head of Organization of Assessment established a maximum of 50 percent enrollment for female students in the following subjects: farming, agriculture, watering, and gardening, farming machineries, mine engineering, materials engineering, medicine and physiotherapy. This rationing was carried out in 2004.
In 2006 the ‘Plan for gender enrollment’ at the universities was introduced to the parliament by some of the MPs.
In 2011-2012 the outmost rationing was implemented at the universities. For 2011 in the entrance examination, women’s ration in two subjects reached 0 percent.
In 2012 the women’s ration in 77 subjects at 36 universities reached 0 percent.
As the result of such policies, many universities either refrained from accepting any female students or just offered subjects that by the mullahs’ rule, women are deprived of studying them.
