Though the law gives women equal status in India, many people hold unscientific views on a woman’s innate nature, capacity and intelligence, and in practice give them a secondary status and role. Demolish this view using scientific arguments, and by quoting examples of great women in science and other spheres; and persuade yourself and others that, given equal opportunity, women are on par with men.

The names of Madame Curie the Nobel laureate, Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Mother Teresa, Kalpana Chawla, from various fields varying from science to sociology is very well-known to the world, and at times these need to be reminded of the people who hold unscientific views on a woman’s innate nature, capacity and intelligence, and in practice give them a secondary status and role. By nature, there exists some difference in man and woman biologically, but that doesn’t make women any inferior to men.


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