To be fair, we are not that far from it beng the case in the UK.
My first wife's mother, who was born in the 1920s, is probably the cleverest woman I have ever met, but her parents would not let her go to university because she was a woman.
Beatrix Potter, who wrote the Peter Rabbit books, also studied fungai (mushrooms and toadstools etc) when she was younger.
She wanted to present her findings to a scientific group in London, but she was not allowed to because she was a woman. A man had to give her presentation, while she sat in the audience.
And in the late 1800s and early 1900s women had to fight and go to prison to get the vote. Some women in prison were force fed as they refused to eat to get more publicity.
And women played football in England up till 1922 when it was then banned by the men at the FA. The ban was in place for 40 years.
So I think we have to be very careful when we critisize another country or religion for their treatment of women.
p.s. I realize shooting that young girl in the head is far more extreme than what we in the UK did, but we still treated women very badly, for which as a man I feel rather ashamed.