of these the following countries were selected for examination angolaaustriathe bahamasbulgariachilemacedonia pakistan and togo with occasional reference to other country reports because there were no country reports from the mena region in this reporting period we have also included the report from jordan which was from an earlier reporting period february this entails a recognition of the interlocking nature of womens disadvantage how imbalances of power within the home and family radiate outwards into inequalities in the labour force and more generally in access to resources and public life it is not enough to point to the many situations in which women remain subject to formal legal disabilities it is also important for un bodies to highlight substantive disadvantage whether or not caused by legal inequalities he adds that lack of recognition of reproductive rights is also part of this cycle since women lose out on work and education by having to marry and have children early ibid