Woman Between Islam and Western Society
12. Conclusion
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A woman’s work relates, albeit indirectly, to all of
life’s activates. While the importance of a woman’s
role in life is at all events comparable to that of a
man, it should be borne in mind that this role will
always be the more effectively performed by those
women who are keener in their awareness.
It is a little understood fact that the role a woman
plays does not depend upon her physical
environment, but rather on the degree to which her
intellect has been cultivated. The importance
accorded to the male sphere of action as opposed to
the female sphere, rather than to the type and
quality of the actions performed therein, has been
given undue emphasis, thus attaching to a woman’s
domain an unwarranted stigma of inferiority. It is
to combat this acquired sense of inferiority that so
many women feel the necessity to emerge from
their homes and to take up the cudgels in the world
of commerce and industry, science and technology,
law and medicine. It is regrettable that they do not
stop to consider that, though they are the weaker
sex, as a matter of biology they are the strength of
the stronger sex. Therein lies the secret of woman’s
power.
