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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous]Hey, I like you, Muslima!

Misogyny is worldwide, and takes on different cultural aspects in different parts of the world. Even here women are paid less than men for the same jobs. There is an important question of degree, though. Theoretically, Western laws are much more women-friendly than Saudi laws. In practice, there are significant differences as well. But if you're talking about like-minded people hanging out together (women shopping and taking care of children for ex), then that is in response to a deeper, more primal, imperative than anything you could stamp out by a law. Women are in general more social, affectionate and gregarious than men. There are well-researched differences in brains.

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I agree with you that western laws are way more friendly and gender neutral than Saudi laws.  The point I was trying to make was more on cultural acceptance and norms.  The  Social life of a rich  segregated Saudi woman is very similar to that of the women described in the article.   Yes, the western woman might have access to more laws,  "freedom" ect but at the end of the day as the author pointed: [b]"The worldwide ethnographic data is clear: The more stratified and hierarchical the society, and the more sex segregated, the lower the status of women."[/b] . The gender segregation and power relations in both the lives of these women and Saudi women are very similar, however the western women are seen as normal because they chose this lifestyle while no Saudi woman would choose to live the way they do. [/quote]

I think you're thinking that these UES women are seen as a "lower status".  I know some people who run in the circles described in that article.  Those women aren't seen as a lower status at all.  [/quote]

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