The ability is missing simply because they have insisted on keeping women in the background. Arabic society in general is male-dominated. They have refused to allow women to be educated equally and to become as productive as men in society – precisely what is needed for the potential of these countries to be unlocked and for their economies to become modernised. They have resisted this, always finding some excuse or other. The problem is passed on from one generation to the next since less-educated women tend to bring up less-educated children, as mothers spend much more time with their
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