Oil has nothing to do with oppression of women. Everything starts from the culture and traditions that are being handed down from generations.

If families and the an Islamic government of a particular nation teach respect and equality among the citizens, even if men are considered as main laborers in a Muslim country, oppression among women is reduced.

Oppression of women is mostly due to men believing themselves to be superior to the fairer sex. Women without their financial strength are considered weaker than men as they are forced to depend on the men in the family for food and shelter. Oil economies have made men in these societies financial stronger and women without any proper opportunity to earn their own livlihood in these countries are forced to depend on their male relatives.

What a ridiculous argument. While I have no problem ceding that oil has exacerbated patriarchical and misogynistic norms in Islamic society, it by no means eclipses the fact that these gender roles were already firmly entrenched as a result of codified ramblings of an 8th century pederast. I agree that without oil, the ability of a mob-ocracy like Saudi Arabia to officially subjugate its women on such a widespread scale would be diminished, but remember that the burqa did not come about with our realization that we could burn petroleum to power machines. Tribal gender separation has been firmly entrenched in the Islamic world for centuries.