The Women Of Irag

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girls were trained were wifehood and motherhood. These weren’t suitable careers for women which threatened to drive them into the dangerous path of the consumer race.
Eventhough the first move toward salaried employment of women in Iraq came in 1923, when a teachers’ training Institute was opened. 2 This still left some lower class women without a job. There was also some women that were still getting descriminated. It is worthy of note that almost 90 percent of employed women belonged to upper and middle class families and that most of them were educated.
The primary education for girls had begun early in the century, 3 the first secondary school for girls opened in 1929. Only the wealthy and middle class families in the cities had girls pursue there education. In 1974 there was a turning point in the Iraqi educational system, this meant that all education was free, this included books and all other educational requirements. This meant that even lower class families could put ...

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