So when Leviticus tells everyone to shun you during menstruation and after birth, and Paul says you should be subjugated, those are just customs? What authority decides what is custom and what is law for all of Christianity?
Young women died in SA because the religious police would not let them escape a fire without their full-dress burkhas.
The Saudis won't even let women drive cars, although there is no law in the Quran stating so, and there is a long tradition of female Muslim traders who drove the then-equivalent of cars.
Where is the reform movement in Isalm ? This has been discussed extensively here on FR and in analysis by those writing about Islam.
Small and non-fanatical, which means they don't make the news. But their major fanatics (Wahabbi sect) and non-fanatics had the start of their battle long ago, which the British helped the fanatics finally win almost a century ago.
Whereever changes and improvements occurred, they occurred on appeal by Western woman to the equality named in the scriptures.
Okay, show me the scriptures for equality in the Bible, and for each one I can show you scripture for inequality, as well as Quran verses for equality and some for inequality.
The evidence just doesn't support the claims. The world beats a path to the West, which has its roots in Judeo-Christian culture, for its quality of life for women, not the reverse. Sorry, the proof is in the pudding. Western women are not clamoring to live under Islam or in the countries in which it is predominate.