Whoa, Lorianne, are you equating conditions women endure in certain non-Western societies with those they endure or endured Western societies? I don't recall the horrors and hardships being visited upon women in Western societies over any span of time you wish to consider as ever being as bad as what women are and have faced elsewhere. I recall no "clitorectomy" (parts of Africa, today) nor "kitchen deaths" (rural India, today still) nor the woman being killed when her husband died (Egypt, India). You will not convince folks by blaming one group for something it didn't do.
>>Whoa, Lorianne, are you equating conditions women endure in certain non-Western societies with those they endure or endured Western societies?<<
I can't find the relevant post, but yes, she probably is.
American wives are the richest, safest, and most long-lived women on the planet, now, or at any time in human history.
You would not necessarily know this from watching Lifetime, however.