Legalized, institutionalized and normalized misogyny is everywhere. It’s holding girls and women back from reaching their full potential and realizing the equality that is their birthright. And the consequences are devastating, rippling across communities and generations.
Even when absurd laws, such as requiring a wife to get her husband’s permission for a haircut, aren’t actually enforced, the fact that such strictures are still on the books means they could be, and suggests that some governments feel no obligation to enshrine and protect equality. The relationship between harmful social norms, bad laws or absent laws is symbiotic. Stereotypes and biases are reinforced by laws, and vice versa.
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