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Being deprived of the opportunity to get an education, physically assaulted, subjected to unfair and biased laws, forbidden from autonomy, and having ones life path dictated from birth? All that sounds like being treated badly. Would you be okay with that?

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Are those the criteria the study used?

While I agree with you, I think the point made by OP is simply that everything is subjective. What is "good" and what is "bad" is subjective. Not everyone on earth will have the same definition.

Another challenge is that conservative or traditionalist societies can isolate women from 'dangerous' ideas. Surveys from members and their kids before and after migrating would be interesting to compare.

> “A woman who drives a car will be killed,” says Sheikh Hazim Muhammad al-Manshad

That’s the first line of the article. I don’t think it’s really subjective to say that killing women for driving cars counts as treating them badly. (Unless you just want to make some kind of general philosophical point about everything being subjective, but how would that be relevant?)

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