pressures on girls to withdraw from school at puberty.
That is a one sick “culture.”
I suspect they are merely doing what their local imam told them that the Koran commanded them to do. It’s more a religious than a cultural thing. I suspect the Christians in same arer (immersed in the local culture) don’t do this.
I’ve mixed feelings.
If a culture wants to keep some members ill-educated. Uhhhhh, I dunno. I don’t like it and there is ample evidence that suppressing your females hurts the males; and then society at large.
Where I do draw the line is selling girls into marriage and surgery — you know what I’m talking about there.