She is consigned to a life of dull, drab drudgery while Islam grants her a balanced, spiritually rich and socially active life. Even the Qur anic word Qawwam is wrongly translated to create the inequality myth . While the world Qawwam means protector and maintainer , it has been translated as king, master or ruler by many. Conferences are held to discuss her status as if she is not a human being. Nay, even her pregnancies are planned and abortions are decided by her men folk.
Unemployed husbands are moreover burdens which the Muslim women suffer silently.
She is expected to behave like the happiest woman on earth, even against unemployed husbands. Crushed by men at home whether in joint or nuclear families, the Muslim woman is exploited by social and even political forces all the time. The hue and cry over the Muslim women s quota in the reservation issue is a case in point. The working woman s problems are multiplied when she works doubly at home and outside too, bears and rears children and finally this tired and worn out sacrificial lamb is expected to keep her man happy and satisfied at all times in the name of Islam. The main reason for the woes of the Muslims, is the crushing and stifling of half their population.