Rabieh Emami Razavi’s Withdrawal from the Plan to Make Schools Gender-Segregated

Rabieh Emami Razavi’s Retraction from the Plan to Make Schools Private

The advisor on women’s affairs to the Minister of Education, two days after her remarks about the ministry’s efforts to finalize and implement the plan to make girls’ schools private, claimed that her statements were misused.

On Thursday, April 20, Rabieh Emami Razavi said, ‘We only suggested to school principals that for the comfort and joy of students, if possible, they prepare the school environment in such a way that students can remove their headscarves in an area not visible to unrelated men.’

These statements are made while Emami Razavi, in an interview with the Etemad newspaper on Tuesday, expressed support and pursuit of the plan to make girls’ schools private, stating that the approach of the acting head of the Ministry of Education is the same.

Plans known as making educational environments private, by camouflaging and increasing the height of girls’ school walls, were first proposed in the Islamic Consultative Assembly in 1995.