In many countries, women are asked to waive their rights under the law, or even to produce proof of sterilization before they get a job. The only ray of light is higher education, where women's participation actually increased in certain countries. Vocational and technical schools have either closed down entirely or closed their gates to women. The tidal wave of the rising cost of education threatens to drown this trend of women's education. Studies have shown that, with rising costs, women's educational opportunities decline.
Families prefer to invest and rationally so in their males.
Curiously, prostitution and women trafficking were accepted as inevitable. Perhaps because they catered to masculine needs. Nationalism allocates distinct and mutually exclusive roles to men and women. The latter are supposed to act as homemakers and have babies. No wonder female political representation in parliaments and governments diminished dramatically since 1989.