> Interestingly, 70% of Iranian engineering grads are female Although my experience is with other Gulf states (not Iran but considered relatively progressive),

> Interestingly, 70% of Iranian engineering grads are female Although my experience is with other Gulf states (not Iran but considered relatively progressive), the cause for that might be less noble than some think. Basically while the sons are allowed to study abroad, the daughters are most definitely not. This leads to the national universities having female majorities in pretty much all subjects. In any case, it would be foolhardy to construe that number as equality (unless e.g. Iran has a huge surplus of women). But it is interesting.