Are There Many Women Scientists In The Third World?
Do the names Islamic Network for Women Scientists or the Third World Organization for Women in Science ring a bell? For as long as there has been science, there have been women science and research exponents too. It is not too surprising though that people find it hard to believe that out in the Middle East where women have a hard time standing up for the right to step out of the house without a male escort, or out in India where five women a day are burned to death by their husbands for not bringing in a dowry, that there would be any hope for women in science. The thing is, it is not really fair to see a whole culture as a homogeneous affair.