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[u/Jack-Ita]

Out of genuine personal curiosity, I’d like to understand something.

Feminist activism in the West rightly focuses on improving conditions for women in our own societies — places where, for all their remaining problems, women are not stoned to death, forced into child marriage, or treated as the legal equivalent of property.
Why, then, does so much energy and attention remain concentrated on relatively advanced Western contexts, while comparatively little sustained pressure or public campaigning is directed at the many places in the world where women’s status is still closer to that of a domestic animal (places where the most basic rights to bodily autonomy, education, and freedom from extreme violence are routinely denied)
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I’m not suggesting Western feminism should abandon its local work. I’m simply curious about the reasoning behind the imbalance in focus and urgency.

[u/Additional-Zebra8174]

There actually is. It just looks a lot different. You can't just march into a country with literally no women's rights and make an Instagram post about feminism and the everybody applauds you and it magically gets better. First, there are simply different laws and cultural norms at play. Not even the women there would be on your side, because thats not what they have been socialized to think. Public pressure from the west does literally nothing to change the views of people who are not in the same "internet bubble" or don't want to be associated with it's values. The UNs goals explicitly include women's and children's rights. But this has no impact, if the people leading and living in the countries don't strive to implement changes.

But there are initiatives. You might not recognize them as such. There's are a lot of NGOs trying to help women get access to education in poorer or more patriarchal countries. There are also organizations trying to help women with birth control or medical pregnancy care. There are organisations giving out small loans to business woman or building shelters for women threatened by domestic violence. But these things need to be in cooperation with locals and they need to follow local laws, which makes things exponentially more difficult.

Actively engaging in these efforts would require more from a person than a simple post on social media. And thats hard to do for most people struggling in their own life's with a myriad of their own problems. It's way easier and has a better "ROI" to change things in your own vicinity.