WOMANHOOD IN ISLAM

about things such as who is better at reading a map or why more men than women choose to enter certain professions.” Male and female brains operate differently at a molecular level, the research team reports in a new study of a brain function involved in learning and memory, responses to stress etc. For 20 years, Woolley actively avoided studying gender differences in the brain until her own data showed her that differences between females and males were real. “Being a scientist is about changing your mind in the face of new evidence,” Woolley said. “I had to change my mind in the face of this evidence.” “We are not doing women—and specifically women’s health—any favors by pretending that things are the same if they are not,” Woolley said. Currently a lot of research is focusing on these differences. Science has supported the religious concept of man and woman being different, as being the right one. Still the allegation continues to be made that Islam has ‘degraded’ woman. Anyone who studies the islamic concept of womanhood will know that Islam considers the two genders as “Equal in respect but different in roles” It is very unfortunate that well read people have said that religious laws pertaining to women were socially reactionary. Such remarks are made so indiscriminately and so frequently that is it time one considers the possible root causes. One of the root causes is that the results of research on the differences between man and woman have remained only an academic finding and need to be transformed into a popular intellectual revolution. The social penetration of these ideas will have to take place on a very large scale. It calls for an intellectual revolution. This is not far fetched since modern science has provided all the arguments in favour. It is only a question of engaging wholeheartedly in the dissemination of those findings. o Science has supported the religious concept of man and woman being different, as being the right one.