It may well be female students’ very success – and the role of educated women in opposing Iran’s theocracy – that led the government to seek to reverse the trend. Now, women like Noushin, a student from Esfahan who told the BBC that she wanted to be a mechanical engineer, are unable to achieve their ambitions, despite getting high scores on their entrance exams.
也许正是女生所获得的成功——以及受教育女性在反对伊朗神权体制中所起到的作用——让政府寻求扭转这一趋势。如今，向诺欣（Noushin）——她是一位伊斯法罕女生，她告诉BBC，自己的梦想是成为一名机械工程师——这样的女生根本无从实现自己的雄心壮志，尽管她们在入学考试中获得了高分。