A 12-year-old Thai girl is held as a sex slave in a brothel catering to Western tourists. A Kurdish teenager is buried alive by her father because she talked to boys. A middle-aged mother in Iran is awaiting execution for adultery. An American porn actress is slapped and spat on by her co-stars.
Despite a World Economic Forum report claiming the gender gap is narrowing, these true stories suggest a different scenario.
Forty years after the publication of The Female Eunuch, it seems the global rights of women are in as perilous a state as ever. And though this erosion of rights manifests itself in different ways, its underlying cause is the same.
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