Behaviour wise they are top rate?
You are wrong wrong wrong.
I bought a car after Karwa came on the road... Check out the other thread... Mowsalat just does not have a hotline where assault incidents can be reported.

Hindering Women's Emancipation... sometimes women themselves - 'keeping quiet' 'not wanting to cause a fuss' be vocal (polite but firm) and make sure that certain behaviour is not correct and won't be tolerated. Silence is often seen as acquiesence. I am lucky - i am from a society where I feel I have the right to make my feelings known.

For more community based cultures such as Qatar it is harder because the family collective comes before individual rights and there is so much pressure to maintain the family prestige.
Family restrictions include the men and the women. I have heard men say that they would have liked to have a little more choice in finding a wife but their mother decreed it and that was that.

In many places the lack of contraception is a vast hinderence to female advancement.

In some countries it is the low value put on women's lives etc that institutionalises supression and ingrains low self esteem.