تاريخ النشر: 01/01/1980
الناشر: معهد الدراسات النسائية في العالم العربي
نبذة نيل وفرات:No one at the turn of this century could have foreseen the astonishing developments in Arab education that were about to take place, particularly with respect to women. The record speaks for itself. From a few individual pioneers seeking university education abroad, we now have over 350.000 women students ...enrolled at universities and institutes of higher learning throughout the Arab World, and from a life of seclusion modern Arab woman has begun to emerge as an active member of society.
This achievement can be fully appreciated only against a background of slow and laborious progress which laid the foundations for later growth. The development must also be seen in the context of a complex set of interacting factors that combined to bring about dramatic changes in Arab society. Viewed in this broad perspective, access of Arab women to higher education may be regarded both as an index of their developing status and a measure of their contribution to further progress in the Arab World.
The aim of the present two studies is to examine the growth of Arab woman’s access to higher education. The papers briefly review the background factors, the early general features and later trends, both quantitative and qualitative, and the present state and prospects for women’s higher education and Arab women and education. إقرأ المزيد