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There are a few that stem from the cultural expectation that the husband's income pays for the whole family, while the wife's income (if she has one) is for her
by logfromblammo 7y ago
There are a few that stem from the cultural expectation that the husband's income pays for the whole family, while the wife's income (if she has one) is for her use alone. Therefore, if the wife works outside the home, she is selfish, and not contributing to the family. This leads to discouragement or prohibition of external work and the education required to pursue it, especially higher education.
Divorces tend to asymmetrically favor the husband with respect to child custody and what Anglo-American common law would usually consider joint or common property.
Women's fashion may be limited by modesty laws, and certainly still restricted by social pressures.
Premarital public displays of affection may provoke punishments.
Adultery and rape are still handled in a manner considered improper in the US and Europe.
Homosexuality is still punishable by execution, as far as I know.
- devoply 7y agoAlso beheading people and cutting off their hands which are still done in public. Floggings is another. Also all the Saudi dissidents imprisoned by bone saw such as Raif Badawi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raif_Badawi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raif_Badawi