The cost of misogyny; Societies that treat women badly are poorer and less stable Oppressing women not only hurts women; it also hurts men.
“A woman who drives a car will be killed,” says Sheikh Hazim Muhammad al-Manshad. He says it matter-of-factly, without raising his voice. The unwritten rules of his tribe, the al-Ghazi of southern Iraq, are clear. A woman who drives a car might meet a man. The very possibility is “a violation of her honor”. So her male relatives will kill her, with a knife or a bullet, and bury the body in a sand dune.
