Iranian government starts restricting educational opportunities for women
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Ahmadinejad is merely a puppet and a comparatively liberal one at that. The reins of power belong to this guy, secured by overwhelming support from the powerful Revolutionary Guard. The poor citizenry have twice tried to overthrow their government over the past 5 years, but the government has shown that they are willing to torture and kill indiscriminately if that's what's needed to shut people up.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a disgrace to Iran, woman, human rights. I hope someone will just shoot him! Rebels should take him down!
Did you read the article? These restrictions are completely new. Fundamentalist religion is a lot more nuanced than its one-dimensional representation in popular culture. Although women were forced to cover their hair and generally treated as broodmares, they were always encouraged to educate themselves as much as they wanted to (quite similar to Hasidic Judaism in that regard). Now that the clerics have realized the consequences of better educated women (lower birth rates and unwillingness to be married to just any lazy, stupid yahoo), they're trying to cover their own asses."Iranian government starts restricting educational opportunities for women"
Starts?
For more mindfuckery, see female Iranian ninjas.
He didn't order this.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a disgrace to Iran, woman, human rights. I hope someone will just shoot him! Rebels should take him down!
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsCon...d-calls-on-Irans-universities-not-to-seg.aspx
Meanwhile, in Saudi Arabia: http://english.pravda.ru/society/anomal/17-08-2012/121905-saudi_women-0/Did you read the article? These restrictions are completely new. Fundamentalist religion is a lot more nuanced than its one-dimensional representation in popular culture. Although women were forced to cover their hair and generally treated as broodmares, they were always encouraged to educate themselves as much as they wanted to (quite similar to Hasidic Judaism in that regard). Now that the clerics have realized the consequences of better educated women (lower birth rates and unwillingness to be married to just any lazy, stupid yahoo), they're trying to cover their own asses.
The Saudis have made an original proposal - to build a town designed specifically for women. The project is designed for the ladies who want to build a career, but do not know how to reconcile this desire with the strict Sharia law, limiting them to the world of the husband and children. The city is expected to create 5,000 jobs.
I was just highlighting in a semi humorous way that Iran has a lOngstanding record of mistreatment and discrimination of women. I thought "starts" was a bit of a strange word.Did you read the article? These restrictions are completely new. Fundamentalist religion is a lot more nuanced than its one-dimensional representation in popular culture. Although women were forced to cover their hair and generally treated as broodmares, they were always encouraged to educate themselves as much as they wanted to (quite similar to Hasidic Judaism in that regard). Now that the clerics have realized the consequences of better educated women (lower birth rates and unwillingness to be married to just any lazy, stupid yahoo), they're trying to cover their own asses.
For more mindfuckery, see female Iranian ninjas.
Perhaps the academic world could fight back and journals could refuse to accept papers from universities that systematically discriminate against people based on sex, religion or race. All academic publications must meet certain ethical standards- this should be one of them.
