Women in Technology in Iran

Introduction

Education valued: means to get ahead, increasingly means to escape the country, brain drain
No notion of degrees suitable for girls, and ones suitable for boys: Medicine and Engineer are seen as the most prestigious degree for either sex.
Less choice: a student in iran doesn't have a big choice about what degree she'll study at uni, she'll pick a few, usually in the same sort of field, and will study what she gets accepted in
Huge amount of competition between students to get into uni. 20 million sit enterence exam, 500,000 get into a university, 250,000 get into a state university (prestigious and free), the rest into private "islamic azad" universities. To get into a medical school in tehran you have to gain a rank below 100, and to get into any public university in tehran you have to be in the top 100,000 students.
Children study and prepare for enterence exams for their entire highschool career (4 years). Many have several attempts at university enterence exams before getting in or giving up.
Girls see education as the only way to get a career, boys see getting into business and trade as an alternative choice, girls study harder to get into uni.
Programming/computing classes for children??
Single sex primary and secondary education