Women's Rights in the Middle East

I have heard countless stories of women in the Middle East who have been abused sexually, physically, and mentally. In countries like Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, women have almost no rights. In general, women are not allowed to look at another man, work, study, go to the hospital without her husband's permission if she is ill, drive, and their punishments are barbaric. Women are gang raped, burned, beaten, and even killed if they disobey the rules. What is disgusting to me is that men can do whatever they please, for example, men have the upper hand advantage in every situation you can think of. Us women are so lucky to have been born in this country because in the Middle East, women do not have rights. It's incredibly sad to me that in some cultures, the Middle East especially, people are extremely barbaric and cruel to their own people. Some people argue that that is there culture and that every culture is different, but I think that no body deserves to be treated that way and it is wrong to be extremely sexist and to receive severe punishment. In Saudi Arabia for example, women are under the guardianship of a male relative their whole lives and must get permission from him for everything. Women are forced into marriage by the age of sixteen with men who are at least twenty years older than them and women experience a lot of domestic violence. It breaks my heart reading stories that involve women from all over the world that are mistreated and sometimes even killed.