Recently I heard from a few male friends that they couldn't crack an engineering exam but a few girls who scored even 10 marks lesser than they cracked the exam due to the reservation of seats for female candidates. Their plight is very justified since half of the seats in any government conducted exam are already reserved for category students. Now in the remaining half, further division of seats is truly heartbreaking since there's a lot more pressure on male candidates for finding government jobs than girls (thanks to our patriarchal society.) But the question arises, are women technically less intelligent than men? For sure there are a lesser number of women than men in prestigious institutions like the IITs, IIMs, etc., but on the basis of this one statistic, can we pass the judgement on the gender's intellect? The Human Resources departments of several Indian state governments played the gamble of introducing reservation of seats in a few educational and service