honor killing

Yes, we could always do better, but to often the rhetoric implies that in “The West” women have it worse than in other parts of the world.  That is simply not true. Yes there are tiny societies where women are treated as well as in Western democracies, but compare the status of women in the most populous nations: China, India, Pakistan, Nigeria & Bangladesh.  This list represents 6 of the 8 most populous countries and nearly half the world’s population.  Take a look at women’s political power, women’s economic power and women’s social status, then compare them to the status of women in North America and Europe.