As early as 1920 Iraqi women were moving towards gaining more rights and better education and were considered to be some of the most highly educated and pioneering women professionals in the Middle East

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However, Iraqi women were only allowed into veterinary colleges in 1966. Between 1971 and 1972, two women graduated from the College of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Baghdad Layla Al-Bassam and Faeza Al-Madfae became the first female veterinarians in the country. Since that time, the number of female veterinary graduates in Iraq has increased only slowly, because of various socio-economic factors. The veterinary profession in Iraq is still a male-dominated career, with 61.81% being males and 38.19% being females.