I'm familiar with the virgin curing AIDS one, and it's always ugly.

I think it would help if there was some kind of consistent authority; without it I doubt if a better situation is going to get better. But I don't know the answer on a scale that doesn't involve the word "generations".

One of the problems with sexual politics is the conundrum that it seems, historically as well as now, men are just better at the direct application of violence, and they're holding onto their advantage into the age of firearms. Until you restore some measure of rule of law, there will be no time to establish any sort of the institutions that in the developed world that allow for correction of excesses. Women's rights can only improve in these places if there is some force that can stand up to the violence (organized or disorganized) that will be directed against it, and I don't know where that can come from.

The problem is that I don't see how this order can be projected from outside except by a process that takes centuries, and I don't see that being viable.

This makes my head hurt, and makes me remember why everyone hates African strategy.