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Article: Petroleum Feeds Patriarchy
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 10, 2008
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Climate change. Pollution. Financial expense.
Our gas-guzzling ways have long been associated with a variety of
problems, but disturbing evidence now points to a new dimension of
our love affair with petroleum: Oil consumption and high oil prices
hurt the political, social and economic development of millions of
women in oil-producing nations.
You read that right. The more gas you pump and the higher oil
prices get, the more likely you are to harm women's empowerment.
The surprising finding, based on more than four decades of data
from 169 countries, provides a novel explanation of why women in
Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab
Emirates still do not have ...