The sixth chapter focuses on the persisting barriers to women’s access to certain educational, economic, political, and social spheres of development and participation. Young girls are too often denied the opportunity to study, and are exposed to early dropout from the educational system because they are expected to contribute to serving their brothers, taking care of household chores with their mothers. Despite many governments having formal regulations that allow women's formal access, legal limitations still hinder the full deployment of their economic independence in managing their own economic resources and the family unit they belong to. On the one hand, the main challenges lie in the difficulty of accessing certain professions, advancing in careers on equal terms with male colleagues, and receiving fair wages. On the other hand, legal systems are lacking in ensuring women the right to an economically independent life, making them unable to inherit land or property from their spouses. However, one of the most concerning setbacks, not to be overlooked, is the identification of legal measures that criminalise and stigmatise women's participation in feminist activist movements. This constitutes a serious limitation on women's fundamental right to civic and social participation, the freedom to express their agency, and the right to make their voices heard in all life contexts to assert their rights and autonomous determination. To this realm of rights, seriously threatened by a wave of authoritarianism and nationalism, fundamentalism, and supremacist ideologies, the sphere of women's political participation is added, which, despite slight improvement, remains very limited.