A woman crosses a street in downtown Tehran, Iran, on July 25, 2018. Since the 1990s, there has been a significant rise in Iranian women's participation in higher education. Iran has high female literacy. With women making up roughly half of university students, they have consistently maintained equal performance as men in the classrooms, a release by Research and Planning Institution for Higher Education of Science and Technology Ministry. (Xinhua/Ahmad Halabisaz)