The requirement to enter into higher education is to have a High school diploma, and finally pass the national university entrance examination, Iranian University Entrance Exam (Konkur کنکور), which is the equivalent of the French baccalauréat exam.Universities, institutes of technology, medical schools and community colleges, provide the higher education.As of September 2015, 93% of the Iranian adult population are literate.In 2008, 85% of the Iranian adult population were literate, well ahead of the regional average of 62%.Education in Iran is centralized and divided into K-12 education plus higher education.K-12 education is supervised by the Ministry of Education and higher education is under supervision of Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Health and Medical Education (Iran).This rate increases to 97% among young adults (aged between 15 and 24) without any gender discrepancy.Primary school (Dabestân دبستان) starts at the age of 6 for a duration of 6 years.

Her very presence, she recalled, was “a walking challenge to the men.”Azadi had joined a growing number of women in Iran who are electing to remain single, defying their parents’ expectations and the strict conventions of the Islamic Republic.

Sex outside wedlock is illegal in Iran, but many young people are shunning the idea of getting married.

As a result, the regime is worried about a steady fall in Iran’s fertility rate, which has now settled at Western levels.

Zoe Mendelson is traveling the world, talking to friends and strangers about the messy, wonderful business of love. They do anything for their ladies,” one of the men agreed. ” “But really,” she continued, “the boys are much softer and the girls are getting more powerful because they think their rights were underestimated through history. In our culture, which is ancient, the women have a lot of sway,” the woman explained.

Our series Love in Far Off Lands tracks her journey, highlighting the best of her encounters. “Yep,” the woman began, “If you’re a girl, you get to decide how much you’re worth.” Now there’s a sentence that inverts the American conception of women in Iran. My grandmother walks around with a whip and my grandfather is basically not allowed to talk. Iranian culture is almost but not quite matriarchal. One of the men elaborated, explaining that modern Iranian women are the embodiment of a “hard core backlash.