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Originally posted by ltl/fb
How did the women's rights get there before, if it's some econ thing but SH was so bad? How do you explain the relative lack of women's rights in, say, our friend Saudi Arabia, which I think is fairly economically developed?
Ach, why do I bother, you are obsessed that free markets bring all and only good.
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Saudi Arabia is not really a developed country. It has no industry save oil. The government controls the oil so everyone has to suck up to the government. But now that you brought it up. In India, were on paper, women have equal rights, widows are often thrown on funeral pyres. There is poverty and women have no rights. If you look at all the developed countrys in the world they all have much better respect for women's rights than the underdeveloped world. I think there was some provinces in Swizterland that just allowed women to vote (past twenty years). In 1985 I think a women would have much preferred to be an average women in one of the disenfranchised counties in switzerland as opposed to being a random women born in India.
