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Married women are not required by law to obey their husbands

(1=yes; 0=no) · higher is better · 188 countries

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  1. 1Ecuador1
  2. 1Cabo Verde1
  3. 1France1
  4. 1Guyana1
  5. 1Botswana1
  6. 1Algeria1
  7. 1Kazakhstan1
  8. 1Bahamas, The1
  9. 1Belgium1
  10. 1Central African Republic1
  11. 1Austria1
  12. 1Hungary1
  13. 1Libya1
  14. 1Congo, Dem. Rep.1
  15. 1Micronesia, Fed. Sts.1
  16. 1Lithuania1
  17. 1Canada1
  18. 1Moldova1
  19. 1Lesotho1
  20. 1Luxembourg1
  21. 1Guinea-Bissau1
  22. 1Armenia1
  23. 1Hong Kong SAR, China1
  24. 1Dominican Republic1
  25. 1Denmark1
  26. 1Jamaica1
  27. 1Dominica1
  28. 1Lao PDR1
  29. 1Georgia1
  30. 1Cameroon1
  31. 1Burundi1
  32. 1Guatemala1
  33. 1Ireland1
  34. 1Switzerland1
  35. 1Kyrgyz Republic1
  36. 1Benin1
  37. 1Honduras1
  38. 1Costa Rica1
  39. 1Bulgaria1
  40. 1St. Kitts and Nevis1
  41. 1Grenada1
  42. 1Congo, Rep.1
  43. 1Australia1
  44. 1United Kingdom1
  45. 1Gabon1
  46. 1Cambodia1
  47. 1Chile1
  48. 1Colombia1
  49. 1Bhutan1
  50. 1Bosnia and Herzegovina1
  51. 1Germany1
  52. 1Iceland1
  53. 1Korea, Rep.1
  54. 1Greece1
  55. 1Fiji1
  56. 1Cote d'Ivoire1
  57. 1Cyprus1
  58. 1Kiribati1
  59. 1Croatia1
  60. 1Angola1
  61. 1India1
  62. 1United Arab Emirates1
  63. 1Belarus1
  64. 1Sri Lanka1
  65. 1Antigua and Barbuda1
  66. 1Finland1
  67. 1Madagascar1
  68. 1Kenya1
  69. 1Brazil1
  70. 1China1
  71. 1Spain1
  72. 1Argentina1
  73. 1Bangladesh1
  74. 1Guinea1
  75. 1Estonia1
  76. 1Barbados1
  77. 1Czechia1
  78. 1Bolivia1
  79. 1Israel1
  80. 1Ethiopia1
  81. 1Azerbaijan1
  82. 1Japan1
  83. 1Ghana1
  84. 1Gambia, The1
  85. 1Burkina Faso1
  86. 1Morocco1
  87. 1Liberia1
  88. 1Eritrea1
  89. 1St. Lucia1
  90. 1Lebanon1
  91. 1Indonesia1
  92. 1Italy1
  93. 1Albania1
  94. 1Belize1
  95. 1Comoros1
  96. 1Latvia1
  97. 1Haiti1
  98. 1Oman1
  99. 1Malawi1
  100. 1Myanmar1
  101. 1Mexico1
  102. 1Namibia1
  103. 1Mauritius1
  104. 1Nepal1
  105. 1Marshall Islands1
  106. 1Niger1
  107. 1Malta1
  108. 1Philippines1
  109. 1Mozambique1
  110. 1Pakistan1
  111. 1Nigeria1
  112. 1New Zealand1
  113. 1Palau1
  114. 1Nicaragua1
  115. 1Maldives1
  116. 1Mongolia1
  117. 1Peru1
  118. 1Netherlands1
  119. 1Montenegro1
  120. 1North Macedonia1
  121. 1Panama1
  122. 1Norway1
  123. 1El Salvador1
  124. 1Portugal1
  125. 1Uruguay1
  126. 1Ukraine1
  127. 1Uganda1
  128. 1Uzbekistan1
  129. 1Sierra Leone1
  130. 1Paraguay1
  131. 1Tanzania1
  132. 1St. Vincent and the Grenadines1
  133. 1United States1
  134. 1Puerto Rico (US)1
  135. 1Turkiye1
  136. 1Tunisia1
  137. 1Venezuela, RB1
  138. 1Sao Tome and Principe1
  139. 1Trinidad and Tobago1
  140. 1San Marino1
  141. 1Tonga1
  142. 1Viet Nam1
  143. 1Timor-Leste1
  144. 1Tajikistan1
  145. 1Vanuatu1
  146. 1Thailand1
  147. 1Poland1
  148. 1Solomon Islands1
  149. 1Togo1
  150. 1Samoa1
  151. 1Somalia, Fed. Rep.1
  152. 1South Sudan1
  153. 1Romania1
  154. 1Chad1
  155. 1Syrian Arab Republic1
  156. 1Seychelles1
  157. 1Russian Federation1
  158. 1Eswatini1
  159. 1South Africa1
  160. 1Sweden1
  161. 1Papua New Guinea1
  162. 1Serbia1
  163. 1Slovenia1
  164. 1Senegal1
  165. 1Zambia1
  166. 1Singapore1
  167. 1Slovak Republic1
  168. 1Rwanda1
  169. 1Suriname1
  170. 1Zimbabwe1
  171. 2Saudi Arabia0
  172. 2Qatar0
  173. 2West Bank and Gaza0
  174. 2Sudan0
  175. 2Yemen, Rep.0
  176. 2Malaysia0
  177. 2Mauritania0
  178. 2Mali0
  179. 2Iraq0
  180. 2Egypt, Arab Rep.0
  181. 2Equatorial Guinea0
  182. 2Iran, Islamic Rep.0
  183. 2Jordan0
  184. 2Kuwait0
  185. 2Bahrain0
  186. 2Djibouti0
  187. 2Afghanistan0
  188. 2Brunei Darussalam0

Married women are not required by law to obey their husbands