Two contradictory views about the status of women and their abilities and disabilities are entertained by social thinkers. According to one school, the women are feedler in physique than and inferior in intellect to, meals, and hence should be accorded a subordinate place in the society as well as in the family: while the other holds that woman is equal to man in all respects and their apparent inferiority is imposed on them by selfish designs of the opposite sex. According to the latter school, given equal opportunity, woman can make equal contribution to every sphere of human progress. But the sound judgement of an unbiased mind will reject either of these two extreme views and attempt to understand the problem on the scientific principles of psychology and physiology. The present work by a competent anthropologist who tried to apply an anthropology to the sexes is a serious attempt to establish the truth about woman and judge the validity or otherwise of the above mentioned views.