Women's Perception of Science: Theory and Practice

denied. Alcoholism and drug addiction are the results which in turn add to crime and poverty. As such Sal Restivo has seen "modern science as a social problem".1 One such problem is the discrimination between man and woman. Sandra Harding says that “Science is both progressive and regressive”.2 Harding considers science as regressive from the standpoint of feminism. Science is regressive, i.e., dominating and exploitative in the sense that it provides information of social resources by which social relations can be controlled, e.g., in the matter of controlling gender relations and thereby controlling society. Feminist observation is that various methodological and political elements are responsible for discouraging women in the study of science. So far the tradition of science was to eliminate women from science. This is mentioned as structural obstacles by Harding.3 She asks for changing this tradition. I would like to explain this structural obstacle in details in the following section and then I shall explain how this problem prevails in Bangladesh. II Harding believes that traditional science education which is prevailing has been set for men. It has flaws. Therefore it must be changed. She observes that certain parts of science which we trace in different educational institutions should not be gender based rather gender free