A primary strategy for emancipating girls from constraints of home and family in Tajik patriarchic culture of the 1930s was to create an educational system built upon women teachers who were trained in pedagogical institutes and universities. Although this Soviet effort was modestly successful, the collapse of the former system has seen higher education opportunities and outcomes for women diminishing. This research sought to compare higher education possibilities for women in the city of Khujand over the past fifty years as remembered, retold and now experienced by teachers, university faculty and current students. The primarily ethnographic interview data was collected in February and March of 2011 in Khujand and Dushanbe.
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Alan J. DeYoung, of the University of Kentucky, was a 2009-10 Embassy Policy Specialist (EPS) [9] fellow.
