Is It OK for Iran to Ban Women From 'Manly' College Courses?
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2012/08/29 00:07:30
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File this under "extremely sexist and regressive." 36 universities in Iran announced that 77 college courses will be "single gender" only and available exclusively to men. The move, which has prompted a demand for a U.N. investigation, may be due to the fact that female Iranian students have outperformed men within the last few years in the academic arena. Do you think the news is just plain ridiculous?
THEDAILYBEAST.COM reports:
THEDAILYBEAST.COM reports:
Female students in Iran have been barred from more than 70 university degree courses in an officially-approved act of sex-discrimination, which critics say is aimed at defeating the fight for equal women's rights.
Read More: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/21/i...
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Thecharliejay 2012/08/29 01:12:54No
+10It is discrimination and sexism, there are hardly any rights for women over in the middle east. It is appalling.
not acheive anything good.
Iran has always been quite progressive regarding women's rights.
It would be wise to learn something about the nation before making such silly comments. Not every Middle Eastern nation is the same. Iran is quite modern in many ways & traditional in many other ways. It is far more of complex situation than most Americans can fathom... mostly due to our lack of education about other nations/societies & our general fear of the same.
I wonder if a misogynistic proposal like this because Iranian conservatives are worried about the birth rate? (Iran's TFR is now only 1.8, comparable to many Western countries.) Lack of family-wage jobs is also making it very difficult for many Iranian men to get married.
...& embargoes aren't helping matters over there either.
The People are always the ones to suffer embargoes, not the leaders.
I strongly disagree with our actions regarding Iran. The majority of the American public doesn't have clue one about Persia, its culture or history & they just toe "party" lines, regurgitating the nonsense propaganda they've been force fed.
Really, the ignorance in our nation puts us somewhere behind those that we taunt,
This can have nasty consequences for women in times of high unemployment though -- some working women in Basra (Iraq) were murdered by desperate unemployed men who wanted their jobs, and a similar logic also explains why the Taliban banned women from working (in a country devastated by the Soviet invasion and following civil war, the Taliban wanted to save what few jobs there were for the men).
You and/or the UN can't brand everyone with your idea of right and wrong.
You don't have to like it but it's not your decision to make. Nor should it be the UN's.
Can't Israel stand on its own? It's all grown up now... & wealthy as hell.
It is foolish to follow anyone/thing blindly. One must pay attention to what the leaders say/do & not simply think, "We support Israel" because of some fear of being anti-Semitic. It is more detrimental to their nation as well as ours to allow their leaders to act without being checked. The idea that the US agrees with everything they say/do is ridiculous. It is not anti-Semitic to disagree with the government. It is anti-Semitic to bash Jews in general in a racist way.
People get it wrong when they think that disagreeing with a government must equal antisemitism.
she may be great at it. What is considered a manly college course?
I do not disagree that such practices should not take place in the US. However, if, in Iran, The People decide that certain classes should not be taken by women, that's their business. Iranian women have always been very strong & have always fought very hard for their rights... particularly when it comes to education. So, I would suggest that we sit back & allow them to take care of this themselves.
Women are pretty tough cookies... all over the world. It might take a while, but eventually, especially with the Internet & the young generations communicating with each other everywhere, women in Middle Eastern & other Islamic nations will organize themselves & change their own societies.
I know enough Muslims from all over to know that most do not want strict Shariah, most do not want to be overly controlled... but most firmly believe in the Qu'ran & also do not want their societies to be like ours... where unmarried women with children are commo...&&&&
I do not disagree that such practices should not take place in the US. However, if, in Iran, The People decide that certain classes should not be taken by women, that's their business. Iranian women have always been very strong & have always fought very hard for their rights... particularly when it comes to education. So, I would suggest that we sit back & allow them to take care of this themselves.
Women are pretty tough cookies... all over the world. It might take a while, but eventually, especially with the Internet & the young generations communicating with each other everywhere, women in Middle Eastern & other Islamic nations will organize themselves & change their own societies.
I know enough Muslims from all over to know that most do not want strict Shariah, most do not want to be overly controlled... but most firmly believe in the Qu'ran & also do not want their societies to be like ours... where unmarried women with children are commonplace, drugs & alcohol are abused by large numbers of the populace & where there are large numbers of children who are not well fed or educated. There are things about our societies that they like & things they don't. They will change their societies to suite them & we have to allow them to do it. If they want our help, we can then consider giving it to them after they ask. However, I would suggest that other Muslim societies or women from other Muslim societies step up first. It will happen. I have no doubt. Women are tough.
in junior high i had to wood shop, metal shop, I wish i would have took a better interest, also we had sewing class. I also remember in high school we had to have half semester of driving ed learning about the car. I could not tell much about a car now.
Iranians are Persians.
Islam is not going to last long because the people who believe in that religion are devided and very violent , to the point of being irrational, even against each other.