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• Still male dominance is rampant
  Laxmi Vilas Ghimire
  Published on: 27 April 2016

• Published on: 27 April 2016

  Still male dominance is rampant

  • Laxmi Vilas Ghimire, medical student

  Dear Editor

  It was very interesting to go through the article by Lawor.[1] Since long ago women have been one way or the other victim of male dominance. In different societies, there exists varieties of myths and superstition that women should not be as independent as men are. They have their own status which they should maintain and not compete with the males, still this sort of speech exists in most part of South Asia....

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  Dear Editor

  It was very interesting to go through the article by Lawor.[1] Since long ago women have been one way or the other victim of male dominance. In different societies, there exists varieties of myths and superstition that women should not be as independent as men are. They have their own status which they should maintain and not compete with the males, still this sort of speech exists in most part of South Asia. In this era of civilisation even in the developed and educated socities of the West where the females scientists and researchers feel that they should not reveal their names for the fear of discrimination is a greater blow to the human civilisation of thousands of years. There is no point in descriminating women in any scientific works when they are as competent as their male counterparts.

  Despite the laws that exist in many countries of the world which guarantees the equal rights to the women, the prejudice that is rampant in every part of the world is due to the conservative thinking that is still deep even in the educated population. Women have proved themselves that they are not less to men in any task that carry out but the thing that I found lacking in them is the confidence. When they are succesful and competent why should they fear any one? Why they are reluctant to write their full names. It is seen that female medical doctors have out numbered the males in less than two centuries. They can take better admistrative position in near future.

  As the world is still not that ready to accept female dominance the women have to teach the world that they are ready to take any positions to make a better world e.g. scientific world, they are eqally good in comparison to men. The world would in vey near future see when every woman irrespective of any field would not hesitate to read her name fully or write similarly. Its not because they are superior to male but they deserve equal opportunities and resepect as male.

  References

  1. Lawlor D A. What's in a name? J Epidemiol Community Health 2004; 58: 726

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  Conflict of Interest:
  None declared.

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