Yes, but the article underlines the progress made. This is a rearguard action by the reactionaries who are starting to realise that once you have mass education for women, it's hard to keep a completely male-dominated power structure.

As it's written up, it seems to be shaping as a civil rights issue, rather than a religious question, which is very encouraging.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}