Women's Rights and Freedoms in the Middle East

Oil did not cause patriarchy. Female seclusion was integral to male honor long before oil booms. Even if there is a giant oil discovery in a highly moslem country, female labor force participation only falls by percentage points over ten years plus. The countries with the globall highest increase in female labor market participation are oil rich proetincata. So i was wrong about islam. I underestimated it. I was also wrong about christianity. Mediaeval europe was very patriartial. They constructed en as intellectually superior, uniquely capable of reason, and thus rightful patriarchs. Men could only achieve piety by policing women, thereby preventing fitne at is corruption.