Woman Between Islam and Western Society
3. Western Woman
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topsy-turvy in order to turn the fanciful supposition
into a reality. In the end, women have come out of
their homes, but they have been unable to become
the equals of men in practical life. The reason is
simple — nature did not obligingly go along with
the human imagination.
The Russian scientist, Anton Nemilov, who himself
desires to see total equality of the sexes become a
reality, admits that this desire of ours has no basis
in biology and agrees that this is the reason for this
idea never having materialized. Citing scientific
experiments and observations, he writes:
Very few people will agree if it is said today
that women should be given limited rights in
the social set up. We, too, are wholly against
such a suggestion. However, we should not
deceive ourselves in thinking that establishing
equality between men and women in practical
life is a simple matter. Nowhere have more
attempts been made than in the USSR to
establish this equality. Nowhere in the world
have such unbiased and generous laws been
made than in the USSR, yet it is a fact that the
