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Educated daughters vs strong daughters: The difference

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Indian government, Indian law, and pro-female organizations in that land talk about increasing education of girls and women. I get very amused at this ineffective and useless propoganda that does nothing great to help the girl child and women. This is because most women even if educated are unable to continue work, career or do entrepreneurship because their parents or in-laws or community will not allow them. So it means educate them for namesake and then make them stagnant to do caring and cooking jobs at home. In short, educate them and again throw them in the same gutter or furnace as before. Education gives them no financial independence, no autonomy, no freedom to decide for self or children. Then what is the role of education for them? Nothing. I pity the parents who think that educating a daughter makes them finish their duty towards her. They continue to rear her as a cow or sheep. The net result is an educated women with no respect or autonomy and no space of her own. This ca...

Medical studies and clinical trials have a male bias! Women health is ignored and leads to misdiagnosis!

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  Clinical trials and studies are first carried out on adult males. Adult females, children, elderly population, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers are less often used in studies. The pharmaceutical companies are worried about including them in clinical trials initially or even later on for fear that if some unforeseen ill-effects happen, people would more likely criticize and sue them for them. Hence they either do not study these groups or study them after all the adult male trials have been successful and safe. This means that many times female diseases remain unstudied and due to this they remain misdiagnosed or missed or remain a total mystery. The ancient thinking on women Women have since time immemorial being considered as an inferior version of men. This thinking has been there despite the fact that developing the human body is a female type first before the male hormones act on them to make it a male. The Greek philosopher Aristotle had described female as a mut...