Woman Between Islam and Western Society
1. A Survey
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Another article, “Why Women Are Second Rate,”
which appeared in the
Illustrated Weekly of India
on
April 2, 1978, stresses the findings of professor H.J.
Eysenck, the inventor of Intelligence Quotient (I.Q.)
tests: “As an ardent supporter of equal
opportunities for women, I am constantly nagged
by doubts about their creative ability. How is it that
women have produced so few writers, poets,
composers, artists of top calibre? How is it that even
in professions which are traditionally regarded as
theirs, e.g. cooking and dress designing, men beat
them to the second place. All the famous chefs and
dressmakers (even women’s wear) are men.
Hitherto I had accepted the sociologist’s point of
view that it was tradition and environment that
militated against them. Somehow the sociological
answer did not carry total conviction and I felt there
was more than environment and lack of
opportunity behind women’s second-ratedness.”
Professor H.J. Eysenck who pronounced that the
black and brown races had a lower I.Q. than the
white, has now proclaimed the same about women.
Their genes make them what they are: from the
time of conception their feminineness is
