By: Prof. Nahida Abdullkarim 
In ancient Iraq woman has good position that she enjoyed with her rights in different fields, although education at that time limited for rich families but it did not prevent availability of educated women. With the spread of Islam,science and education was spread also and courage to get it did not divide between the genders.Decays of 1970s-1980s witnessed increasing of interest with education, but were reduced too much after 1990 up till 2003 because of economic sanction. After invasion Iraq in 2003 Iraqi woman faced a big difficult in education filed because of destruction resulting from the war, and also violence that followed, for all that families prevent girls and woman to go to school as well as university.
