Alleged banning of women from universities Human rights in Iran
in august 2012, following years in iranian women students have outperformed iranian male students, 36 universities announced 77 ba , bsc courses single gender , not co-ed. under policy, undergraduate women excluded wide variety of studies in leading institutions, including english literature, english translation, hotel management, archaeology, nuclear physics, computer science, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, , business management. shirin ebadi, iranian nobel laureate , human rights lawyer exiled in united kingdom, wrote united nations secretary general ban ki-moon , high commissioner human rights navi pillay on move, saying iran s true agenda lower proportion of female students 65% below 50%, weaken iran s feminist movement in campaign against discriminatory islamic laws. iranian parliamentarians have criticized new policy.
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