The gender encountering situations in the university and their miseries

This article is about studying girl students’ gender miseries in the Iranian university. The population of the university is the only mixed sex population in an official and governmental space in which the population is highly by cultural circulation and variations. Due to this fact, the gender encountering happens a lot through the everyday relations of the university. The gender encountering of the girl students with the male professors contains a crucial importance that has been remained silent at other inquiries; however there is some information of sexual exploitation, harassment and discrimination about girl students by male professors. This article mainly concerns about a type of gender encountering, in Iranian university community, which has not been studied before. For this reason, we analyzed 10 universities and conducted in-depth interview with 146 girl students. As the result, our findings demonstrate that the principle of regarding the gender privacy, based on the Iranian culture, by male professors, when it is performed so strictly or it is ruptured then it produces the triadic consequences of gender “harassment”, “discrimination” and “exploitation”. Thus, the inevitable result of these factors is the occurrence of gender misery for girl students.