A Clarification of a Misunderstanding

WOMEN IN HISTORY AND TODAY in the brain until her data showed that differences between females and males were fundamental. “Being a scientist is about changing your mind in the face of new evidence,” Woolley said. “I had to change my mind because of this evidence.” “We are not doing women—specifically women’s health— any favours by pretending that things are the same if they are not,” Woolley said. Currently, much research is focusing on these differences. Science has supported the religious concept of men and women being different as being correct. Still, the allegation continues to be made that Islam has ‘degraded’ women. The Islamic concept of womanhood considers the two genders “equal in respect but different in roles.” Unfortunately, well-read people have said that religious laws about women were socially reactionary. Such remarks are made so indiscriminately and so frequently that it is time one considers the possible root causes. One of the root causes is that the research results on the differences between men and women have remained only academic. These findings need to be transformed into a popular intellectual revolution. The social penetration of these ideas will have to take place on a vast scale. This is not far-fetched since modern science has provided all the arguments in its favour. It is only a question of engaging wholeheartedly in disseminating those findings.