Oil Wealth Harms Women's Rights

Oil-producing nations tend to have greater gender inequality. Among Muslim countries, nations with the most oil wealth have tended to be the slowest to give women the right to vote. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates still do not allow women to vote.

[Graph: Oil and gas per capita in the year women were given the right to vote in each country]

SOURCES: Michael Ross, political scientist, UCLA; American Political Science Review | GRAPHIC: The Washington Post - March 10, 2008

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