Over 60 per cent of university students in Iran are women. On some courses women greatly outnumber men and the authorities are beginning to get worried. It's one of the biggest social shifts since the 1979 Revolution. Iran's Islamic government has managed to convince even traditional rural families that it's safe to send their daughters away from home to study. Many analysts believe this new army of educated women will force huge social change in the decades ahead.
Jenni talks to Dr Elaheh Rostami Povey, a development academic at the School of Oriental and African Studies and to Masoumeh Velayati, an Iranian academic and lecturer at Leeds University.
And Frances Harrison reports from Tehran on the changes affecting women in the Iranian workforce. |
