Question about female worth in islam.

[Aegrus]

I'm not very familiar with Islam. However, I recently had a small portion of it explained to me by a Muslim woman who goes to the same college as I.

According to her, a woman in Islam is worth 1/2 of a man. (She actually tried to argue that this was proof that Islam respects women. I don't know how she thought that saying women are worth 1/2 of men would help her case. Maybe she assumes that women outside of Islam are worth less than 1/2 of a male?)

At any rate, her English wasn't very good, so it's possible she meant that men and women are considered equal halves by Islam.

Does anyone here know if Islamic texts give any fractions for the worth of women? I will consider it bigoted and horrid unless 1 woman=1 man.