Women have fought very hard and against great odds over extended periods of time to achieve equality of opportunity, in regards to just about everything, from employment to education, to voting, to having to overcome being considered chattel to self-determination, so that in all of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, females now have in many instances equal opportunity with men, though, vestiges of male chauvinism still exist and are in play.
The achievements of females in higher education have been quite impressive, so that as reported by economist.com, in 32 out of the 34 OECD countries, more females than males are college graduates, and in aggregate, it isn't really even close, as 58% of college graduates within these countries are currently female. Not too surprisingly, the countries with the highest degree of post-secondary educational achievement are countries such as Brazil, Canada, United States, France, and Japan, which are amongst the richest nations in the world as well as the most freest. On the other hand, nations such as Afghanistan, Chad, Tanzania, Benin, and Pakistan, have post-secondary graduation rates for females at some of the lowest levels in the world, as well as being relatively poor countries that are generally considered to be both oppressive and undesirable to live in.
In point of fact, societies that are essentially only inclusive to one sex to the exclusion of the other sex, are less competitive, less free, less open, less educated, and typically less rich than other nations, for if you treat females as if they are born to be protected, or to be servants, or under the thumb or control of the male sex, than the productivity of that country will be considerably less for half of the population is essentially in thrall to the other half. In addition, countries that hear but one voice, that is the male voice, in the decisions that are made, in the justice and the legislation of that country, will by nature, not reach the same decisions that would be made if there was more equality in the voice of that country, for most feminine priorities and concerns are not typically in lockstep with the masculine desires.
While the obvious can be stated that females, in general, are physically the weaker sex, this is mitigated by the fact that society has modernized and thereby now uses less and less true brute manpower, but rather this has been replaced with machine-power, hi-technology, and brainpower, so that the days of the need for the physical to rule all, as it is done within the animalkingdom, has been replaced by civilized society, in which communication, coordination, coalition, and cooperation have become paramount.
This means that the lack of educational opportunities for females in some of the most repressive regimes in the world, ultimately boils down to the ruling male party, desiring to dominate females so that they serve and are dependent upon the male, however that they might dress it up with rhetoric to make it palatable to their people. No matter, the injustice of this to begin with, the most vital point cannot be denied, if you deny people their rightful potential, than they will effectively become wards of the state, and a very present drag upon its structure, its institutions, and ultimately its ability to sustain itself.