Education Trapped in a Triangle of Inequality/ Reza Herisi

In the official discourse of development, the educational system is consistently portrayed as the engine of social mobility and the embodiment of meritocracy. Ideally, this modern institution is tasked with fostering talent by providing equal opportunities regardless of class, ethnicity, or geographic origin, thereby enabling a fair distribution of societal positions. However, accumulated evidence in […]...

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The Feminization of Poverty at the Intersection of Gender and Class Inequality/ Elahe Amani

In his 2020 speech at the “Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture” titled “Tackling the Inequality Pandemic: A New Social Contract for a New Era,” António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, offered strong criticism of neoliberal politicians and theorists. These were the same individuals who, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, claimed, under the slogan […]...

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Deepening Gender Gap in Education; The Tragedy of Girls’ Dropout/Elham Amani

The coronavirus pandemic has had a profound and long-lasting impact on education systems around the world, leading to the closure of many primary, secondary, and tertiary institutions globally. According to estimates by international organizations, as of September 30, 2020, over 1.077 billion students have been deprived of in-person education. The pandemic has exacerbated existing inequalities […]...

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Digital Gender Gap; Two hundred sayings, as there is no half-action/Elham Amani

Gender Digital Divide in Iran Iranian society, in terms of citizens’ access to the internet and modern technology, digital citizenship, and the digital gender gap, has its own unique features and paradoxes. While 17% of graduates from higher education are in the fields of communication and information technology, and nearly 50% of them are women, […]...

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