The U.S. is not alone in its disrespect for women. In China, an official "one child per family" policy has resulted in millions of little baby girls being aborted before birth, or murdered shortly after birth. A similar pattern occurs in India, where the culture gives strong preference to male children, and poor families may even fear having to pay a dowry at the marriage of a daughter. And throughout the Muslim world, women are systematically held down, degraded and often treated as less than human.