essay
Women's education in the Islamic Republic of Iran
In the eye of the storm : women in post-revolutionary Iran • London • Published In 1994 • Pages: 19-43, 194-197
By: Higgins, Patricia J., Shoar-Ghaffari, Pirouz.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this report on changes in women's education from the Pahlavi regime and the Islamic Republic. The authors note that little has changed in the formal structure and content of education for men and women. However the percentage of females in school and female literacy rates has steadily increased under the Islamic Republic, although women have not made as much gains in less developed provinces. Literacy rates for women have doubled in rural areas, although they are still half the rate found in urban areas. The country-wide structure of sex-segregated schools is being relaxed beginning in rural elementary schools. Access to higher education has increased for women in absolute terms, but some fields are restricted to women. The authors also look at changes in textbooks. While the content of text has changed little, they note an invisibility of women in illustrations and an increase in Islamic dress.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Education
- Liberal arts education
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iran
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Unknown
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1966-1991
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iran
- NotesAdditional notes
- Patricia J. Higgins ; Pirouz Shoar-Ghaffari
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93049077
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iranians