Funding sexism and misogyny around the world

""As for the money, Ahmed writes, it came from Saudi Arabia, which was locked in a "fierce rivalry, dubbed the Arab Cold War," with Nasser's Egypt. Beginning in the mid-1960s, the Saudi government funded various organizations it saw as bulwarks against socialism and/or secularism. A condition of much of these funds was a strict adherence to the gender segregation that is a cornerstone of Wahhabi doctrine, and to the gender hierarchy that such segregation entails. Because of its nearly unlimited supply of cash, the influence of Wahhabi Islam spread throughout the Muslim world and had a homogenizing effect on clothing in the entire region."" (thanks "Ibn Rushd")