Fatima, this is the only thread where I have found you making irrational logics......Your whole theory is based upon the assumption that all the women of this world are well provided and have choices of doing comfortable desk jobs in nice posh offices.............open your eyes and look around. there are those women who walk 10 km everyday to get a pail of water.......there are women who need to plough their field.....don't do the injustice of making them handicap by justifying the fashion of veils enjoyed by rich Arab ladies.Making it compulsory is discriminatory, inhuman and immoral.