In fact, modern science has shown that girls are not inferior to men in any field, if anything, quite the contrary. While intelligence quotient (IQ) scores are similar for men and women, girls are better able to multitask. Similarly, girls have a higher ability to retain memory, as communication between the left and right hemispheres of the female brain is comparatively more effective.
Simply put, girls do not have any inherent deficiency, either physically or intellectually. The reason they are not allowed to lead parties like Jamaat is not because of gender or sex; This is because they have not been given the opportunity. Jamaat Ameer has cited women’s ability to bear children as its argument. That ability is a biological process; This has nothing to do with leadership. Leadership requires strategic intelligence, managerial skills and the ability to guide a party or country with a cool head in times of crisis. Women are no less capable than men in any of these fields.
Think about Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India in 1971. Economist Amartya Sen gives another example. In her data-driven research on the 1974 famine in Bangladesh, she showed that many families survived during that severe disaster primarily because women were in charge of running the household. Through advance planning in the use of scarce food, conservation, fair distribution, and finding ways to make it last longer, they protected their children, husbands, and relatives. Think about present-day Gaza or war-torn Sudan. In these areas, many people may drift away or die slowly, but those who survive often do so because of the capable leadership of the women in their families.
Jamaat Amir, like many others, invokes religion as a justification for keeping women out of leadership. Yet since the time of the Prophet of Islam (peace be upon him), we see women in decision-making roles. We see him as a commander on the battlefield. Jamaat Amir should know this better than us.