Women Education Iran

Effects of Education on Females in IRAN

Well-Educated women and their roles in family and society

By:

Salimeh Pour Mohammad

Email: salimeh2002@yahoo.com

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Abstract:

Education as a capacity for finding the appropriate place in this modern world has a specific role in the life of everyone to achieve his/her aims and objectives.

Education and its impression on women's life, importance of searching more knowledge, female proportion in access to Education, the barriers and benefits in this respect, why should we encourage women to be educated and so on are subjects that have studied in this paper. Also, it has overviewed the key issues relating to equity of men and women's education in Iran.

Key Words:

True Education, Females' Education, Quality of Life and it's improvement, Controlling over life, Decision Making, Equal Chance for Educating, Gender equity, Meritocracy in Society and Globalization.

Introduction:

Education have facilitated and expanded by social, cultural and economic channels amongst nations including Iran. It has clearly affected female proportion.

Education is the fundamental area where women in Iran are demanding to have appropriate proportion and nowadays is as a power in the hand of every body specially women.

The importance of Education has obviously understood by everyone in Iran. Also, current wave of globalization has increasingly promoted females' lives especially in developing countries. Therefore, it has affected their Education too.

Women accessibility to Education system in Iran:

Any society has its specific methods of spreading knowledge which people whether children or adults can benefit from.

From over 600 years ago, Iranian has had their especial schools which their single teacher has tried to teach the students for both males and females. Students used to learn the Quranic concept. Also, reading and memorizing Quran has been one of the most important tasks of those schools in Iran with the name of Maktab as like as all Muslim countries. This traditional method for educating was for religious education only.

However, girl's Education after Maktab has not been common in cultural and traditional points of view for centuries. Also, parents have not had any attention to send their girls to school and if the Education fees had been significant, girls would have been in first priority to be taken out of schools.

Special referencing to girls for obtaining knowledge and being educated has dramatically grown since middle of 20th century.

Some classic, formal systems of Education emerged after that informal method of educating. The formal systems has continued, reformed, modified and finally developed during decades.

Nowadays, great ambitions of parents and children, religious importance of Education and its role in society, government development plans and compulsory elementary Education, international encouragement and so on are remarkable in accessibility to Education for females.

There are many elementary and high schools around Iran. Even, there are different kinds of Universities. Therefore, the ways to access to professional Education are open in front of everyone with different economical context. Nowadays, the number of females who are going to schools is more than before. Also, the percentage of female admissions in annual entrance examination for Universities reached to 64% in 2008. This percentage illustrates that they have gained upper chance for educating.

However, females in Iran are proving not to be less able than males in Education and academic performance which mean an aspect of gender equities.

Quality of Education:

Generally, quality of obtained Education in Iran depends on social class which students especially females come from. In the other word, lower social class examples do less well than higher social class ones. It is something that happens in societies very common. Private schools have widely well-established and developed in Iran Education system rather than public schools which are supported by government. But, quality of Education in government Universities is very much higher than private Universities. The percentages of accepted candidates in entrance examination for postgraduate degree at Master and PHD level in both type of university which have got 52% difference illustrates it's reality as one of witnesses.

However, quality of Education in Iran institutions has developed and therefore, the better qualification results the better effect on life particularly on females lives.

Effects of Education on lives of females:

Effects of Education on women's families:

Education can prepare well-development wisdom for females