Sunday, April 29, 2007
Ahmadinejad and Women
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reversed Iran's female liberation movement systematically, one restriction at a time, since he took power in August 2005.
Among his proposals:
- A law to mandate 1/2 college students are men, including a policy to restrict women entering medicine
- Women who work for the government must leave work by 6 to care for their families (law)
ANd even prisons give more free time, cigarette breaks, and tea to men.
The implications these policies will have on Pakistan's women creates a disaster in the field of human rights. Such setbacks set precedents for segregating societies and chipping away at women's rights as equal rights. Probably the most detrimental effect will be in education, where all nations can only benefit from training the students with the highest potentials and accelearted wills to succeed.
Among his proposals:
- A law to mandate 1/2 college students are men, including a policy to restrict women entering medicine
- Women who work for the government must leave work by 6 to care for their families (law)
ANd even prisons give more free time, cigarette breaks, and tea to men.
The implications these policies will have on Pakistan's women creates a disaster in the field of human rights. Such setbacks set precedents for segregating societies and chipping away at women's rights as equal rights. Probably the most detrimental effect will be in education, where all nations can only benefit from training the students with the highest potentials and accelearted wills to succeed.
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