As in other world religions, the religious hierarchy in Buddhism is male-dominated, causing ongoing gender discrimination both in monasteries and in wider Buddhist society. Buddhist texts sometimes "equal the worst anti-women polemics of any religion".
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In general, religions have been the most power, persistent and potent suppressor of women's rights across the world, with only a few new-religious-movements as the exception: https://www.humanreligions.info/women.html
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