Adultery is still punishable by stoning to death. Polygamy is legal. In a divorce, fathers control custody of sons over the age of two and daughters over the age of seven. A girl can be tried for a crime as an adult at the age of nine a boy at fifteen. Although the practice is officially discouraged, girls are allowed to marry at nine.
Women inherit only half of what men do.
Men can divorce their wives at will, but women need to prove that their spouses are insane, impotent, violent, or unable to support the family. A woman needs her husband's permission to start a business and sometimes even to get a job. Yet women have begun to use their growing political clout to press for more rights, more important jobs in government, and the same pay, work benefits, and promotions as men. The women leading the charge are products of the revolution. They want power.