Woman in Islamic Shariah

8. Polygamy and Islam ~ 185 ~ Country Male Female Ausqia 47.7% 52.93% Burma 48.81 51.19 Germany 48.02 51.89 France 48.99 51.01 Italy 48.89 51.01 Poland 48.61 51.30 Spain 48.94 51.06 Switzerland 48.67 51.33 Soviet Union 46.59 53.03 United States 48.58 51.42 153. Ibid, vol. 16, p. 137. 154. Figures taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica (1984). THE WILLINGNESS OF WOMEN The presence of a greater number of women in a society is not the only prerequisite for polygamy. It is, in addition, compulsory that the woman who is the object of the man’s choice should be willing to