Sarfaraz Iyzadi, a member of Education and Scientific Research Committee of Majlis claimed, “Before the revolution [in 1979], there were certain restriction on female attendance in some scientific fields such as Mine [Engineering], Agricultural [Engineering], and Mechanical [Engineering] which they did not agree with the women’s physical strength.”
Another member of Majlis, Fatemeh Hyedar-Pour said about the plan, “If our women want to pursue science and technology, they should seek such skills useful to their households. Women should not seek more than their share of the society.”
Such misogynistic comments made by the regime’s leaders come at time when they admit that women’s admissions, with all discriminations against women in Iran, in the higher education schools throughout the nation are greater than men.
The NCRI’s Women’s Committee Chair Ms. Sarvnaz Chitsaz described these vulgar as, “an attempt by the mullahs’ regime to prevent women from actively participating in the scientific fields as well as the society’s affairs. The regime is apprehensive of the growth potentials of women in the Iran.”
Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 2, 2007