Women should not travel more than 48 miles without a male escort – Muslim group

[Regina]

It's definitely true to say that misogyny can be seen in any culture and predates modern religions, but then different cultures and religions have taken misogyny and institutionalised it to different degrees later on. While misogyny is a thing on it's own that can and does exist in every single culture, it's true, there are certain misogynistic practices that are culture-specific. Examples of this would be The Burka and female inheritance laws in certain Islamic schools, and also the sexual objectification of women in Western culture (which is the opposite extreme to the Burka, although somewhat linked).

But with religion, I think saying "misogyny was there before the religion so the religion didn't invent it" downplays how religion can co-opt misogynist elements from earlier cultures and continue to perpetuate and institutionalise them. All religions but especially the Abrahamic ones have done this, they are deeply misogynist in their attitudes to women, and societies which either have state religions or strong religious presence are often worse off for womens' rights. It does correlate. China and perhaps Russia are the only real examples that really go against that.