This video, Jordan's Queen Rania on Arab women, is quite refreshing. 

Her Majesty acknowledges that there are issues in Arab culture regarding women that need to be addressed, 
and it will take time for change. A lot of Arab countries are, however, moving in the right direction.

I think Queen Rania is right. It will take time to change some of the aspects of Muslim 
culture in regards to women. We in the western world are full of feminism, 'girl power', and the working woman, 
and we think that other cultures in the world should be just like us and at the same point we are in our progression. 
This is not possible, and we need to remember that things do take time. Not to mention the fact that a lot of our 
own cultures still have sexism issues.

Take a look, it's very interesting.