Oppressing women keeps societies backwards.

Excellent read from Al Jazeera, called the Price of Oppressing Women.

Quoted from the article " When poor countries choose to oppress their own women, they are to some extent choosing their own continued poverty. Female oppression is a moral issue; but it also must be seen as a choice that countries make for short-term "cultural" comfort, at the expense of long-term economic and social progress."

The thing that I find amazing, is that according to this article Canada is one of the countries where women have the most rights currently and I still find there are bigots and misogynists in Canada like anywhere else sadly.