Notes Women in History: A Science Perspective

Abstract

Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and are more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow chests, and broad hips, to the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children.7 Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Through out times, semantic and every other kind of bias has been heavily in favour of men, history is His Story. There have been many ways of transmitting history, narratives from the courts of great rulers, instances and stories written by lay-men and women, oral tradition and above all historiography of which the great Ibne Khuldum was the inventor. This essay is an attempt at this kind of history based on anthropological and biological data. In sexually reproducing species