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Ah, so SHE was responsible for my low GPA!
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Genuine question: What is the current status of women's education in the Muslim world? Do you have some kind of statistic you're going off here? The only thing that comes to mind is Afghanistan and everyone thinks those guys are nuts.
My understanding is that it's improving but that girls still face serious, disproportionate hurdles. When I remarked about the current poor state, one of the sources I'd read was this conference last year by the Muslim World League (largely funded by Saudi Arabia but understood to be a voice of moderation) who insisted that it's still a major problem worldwide legally and culturally.
Yeah it's definitely a problem in absolute terms, but what I was getting at is whether it's comparatively a problem; otherwise we can't pin the cause down on a certain factor. It could instead be an issue of development. It's not the exact same thing, but plenty of Muslim countries have low literacy gender gaps, and predictably this is more present in wealthier countries rather than more secular countries. In general it's better to look for structural explanations to these things rather than blaming culture or religion.