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[quote=Muslima]It is not a secret that the Saudi regime is oppressive to women and Saudi women do face many problems and cultural discrimination. Again, that is NOT the point of this discussion. There isn't a debate there, I fully Agree from my OP that those issues exist and are REAL. The discussion I wanted to have was one  about the women described in the article whose "choices" and social etiquettes mirror those of Saudi women. From what I see, most people automatically argued that those UES women "chose" that lifestyle, they couldn't certainly have been pressured to leave their careers behind and devote their lives to their families, their segregation is a choice that is totally acceptable. The paradox is that based on the definition of freedom that a lot of people like to hand left and right, the UES women do not look so free  and their motivations/justifications are sometimes the same as those living in what are considered "oppressed" regions, their choices at the end make them dependent on men and disempowered .  What is even more interesting to me, is that this occurs in an Upper Class, wealthy sub-society where, presumably these women  have a wide variety of choices and options of how to live their life at their disposal, and this is the route that is chosen. There is also the issue of the wife bonus, where at the end of the year, the  husband gets to stand in judgment of the wife, determine how good she did, and allocate money to her based on a set of performance metrics for the wife, that is crazy to me. [/quote]

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