Genital mutilation reportedly remains widespread, female foetuses are reportedly preferentially aborted, and fundamentalists push girls into all-enveloping clothes for the rest of their lives, having ensured that their education stops at the age of ten and that they cannot go anywhere freely without a male relative as chaperone.
Ms Jenkins should enlighten us with a piece about what global measures are being implemented to ameliorate and roll back the various abuses, then perhaps her assertion that “this is the best time to be a woman” could in time become true.
Joe Darby
Cullicudden,
Dingwall, Ross-shire