Woman Between Islam and Western Society
3. Western Woman
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far from having been externally imposed, by the
environment, or through historical processes, is
innate. That is to say, that it is biological in nature,
something that women are simply born with and
not something which is eradicable by legislation or
the whipping up of popular sentiment. It is nature
and not nurture which is to be blamed.
In 1981,
Newsweek
magazine reported in detail on
the conclusions drawn from in-depth research
carried out in America by both male and female
investigators on the differences in the physical and
mental make-up of men and women, namely, that
women are emotional in their thinking and that
men are superior to them in mathematics, problem
solving, leadership and fighting.
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Women’s
differences are traced not to their conditioned
responses to a traditionally male dominated society,
but to their own biology which fits them for an
altogether different sphere of living.
It has now been established that hormones play an
important role in creating this difference between
the two sexes. When the male hormone testosterone
was experimentally injected into females, they
