Articles I cited in blog entries below about women scientists in the Muslim world mention, among other things, that even if women do manage to get an education as a scientist, their career prospects after graduation are dismal. Women face social, cultural and religious pressure to marry, become housewives, raise children, and remain distant from […]
Fawza Falih, an illiterate Saudi woman, was beaten and forced to fingerprint a confession that she could not read and that was not read out to her. A Saudi court has condemned her to be executed, probably beheaded. Her crime: witchcraft. Among her accusers is a man who claims she has made him impotent. (Note […]
A creationist group has out-witted peer-review at the journal Proteomics and gotten a paper published that, among other things, claims that mass spectrometric analysis of mitochondria has resulted in evidence for the existence of God. The paper also appears to have plagiarized entire paragraphs from other papers. Proteomics has retracted the paper. However, the editor-in-chief […]
See also Feride Acar’s article, “Women in Academic Science Careers in Turkey”, in Women in Science: Token Women or Gender Equality?, edited by Veronica Stolte, Heiskanen, F. Acar, N. Ananieva, D. Gaudart, and R. Furst-Dilic (eds.). SSC/UNESCO Publication, Berg Publishers, Oxford,1991. The book has articles about women in science in a number of European […]
“Islamic Women in Science” in Science 6 October 2000: Vol. 290. no. 5489, pp. 55 - 56. (click here for full text)
Farkhonda Hassan is Professor of Geology at the American University of Cairo, a Member of the Shoura Assembly of Egypt, and was co-chair of the Gender Advisory Board of the United Nations Commission on […]
Science and the Islamic World—The Quest for Rapprochment”
by Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy
Physics Today, Volume 60, Issue 48, August 2007 (click here)
Pervez Hoodbhoy is chair and professor in the department of physics at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Professor Hoodbhoy has written a fascinating article documenting and attempting to explain the arrested development of science in contemporary Islamic […]