 The edict holds that while some teaching and management responsibilities are shared between the two orders according to capability, the Siladhara Order is unequivocally junior to that of the monks.The "Five Point declaration" is considered to be discriminatory against women.Some monastics and scholars also consider it to be an inaccurate interpretation of the Vinaya and other texts similar to the Three-Fifths Compromise in the United States Constitution or other codified examples of discrimination such as coverture.