The new Gaza law deprives teachers and parents of that choice, imposing gender segregation on private co-ed schools.

NPR: Women's Group Slams Gaza Law On Gender Segregation

And it pointed to what it said was an increasingly worrying trend of gender segregation at student Islamic Society events.

BBC: Student lecture

The idea of gender segregation in schools, particularly from the onset of puberty, is widely accepted in conservative Palestinian society.

NPR: Women's Group Slams Gaza Law On Gender Segregation

In Jordan, gender segregation is left up to private and public schools.

NPR: Women's Group Slams Gaza Law On Gender Segregation

In Lebanon, there is no gender segregation law, and private and public schools are allowed to handle the issue as they see fit.

NPR: Women's Group Slams Gaza Law On Gender Segregation

Finland will also review the impact of tax policies and income transfers on economic equality, as well as prevent gender segregation and promote gender sensitivity in education and training.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

In a previous blog, How To Reduce Workplace Gender Segregation And Help Women Obtain Higher Paying Jobs, I discussed how workplace gender segregation holds women back from obtaining higher paying jobs that could help reduce the pay gap between women and men.

FORBES: Masculine Norms In The Workplace Could Be Holding Women Back

Fifteen years later, the birth rate was still high, and although many women came back to work in the nineteen-fifties, segregation by gender in employment was greater than it had been in 1900, and was more sharply delineated than segregation by race.

NEWYORKER: Books as Bombs