TITLE

Iran: Women medical students protest sex-segregation

PUB. DATE
February 2000
SOURCE
Off Our Backs;Feb2000, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p3
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Reports on the protests made by women medical students at the Fatemieh Medical School in Iran against the school's poor education due to sex segregation. Background on Fatemieh school.
ACCESSION #
2898779

Tags: WOMEN medical students;  SINGLE sex classes (Education);  SINGLE sex schools

 

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