Women in Iran – The Red Pen of Doom

Banning women from college degrees is an achy breaky big mistakey

August 23, 2012August 3, 2021Posted in 5 Random ThursdayTagged arab spring, english lit, English literature, feminism, Hillary Rodham Clinton, iPhone, Iran, ninjas, oppression, Sarah Jessica Parker, University of California Berkeley, Women in Iran, women's issues17 Comments

I try to stay away from politics on this silly blog. HOWEVER: government peoples in Iran just banned women from 77 different college degrees.

I am not making that up. Read the story here: Anger as Iran bans women from universities

Women are about 65 percent of college students now and the men who decided this new policy wanted to drop women below 50 percent. How? By making those degrees — including dangerous stuff like English literature — “single gender.”

Here are three reasons why that’s not wicked smart. Continue reading “Banning women from college degrees is an achy breaky big mistakey” →

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