None of the countries on the list are in the middle east.

You think the male expats get the right to vote ? Lol.

Even male citizens can barely vote for minor, useless local election.

I don't drive, you're right about that. r/fuckcars

They do. Many teachers in UAE schools are female western expats for example and a lot of Philippinas work as maids, nannies or cleaning staff.

It's just that the construction sector is by far the biggest employer of foreign workers and those are 100% male, creating this imbalance.

I agree with your overall point. Just wanna note that abortion in legal in Oman, Kuwait and Qatar in cases of risks to a woman's life, health and in cases of rape.

That's a very weird way to look at it. The male surplus is due to expat construction workers. They are hardly "dominating" the female citizens of those countries. As a woman who looks very Arab, I assure you, it's better to be me in the gulf than a man who looks Indian.

When you spend time in upper-middle-class to rich areas, the gender ratio isn't shocking. It's when you walk in working class areas that you notice you're the only woman in a street with hundreds of people.

French is my native language. I am Belgian, we say 97 as "nonante-sept" literally "ninety-seven" while the French say "four-twenty-seventeen". They do write "quatre-vingt-dix-sept" , literally "four-twenty-ten-seven". French-speaking Swiss don't use "quatre-vingt" (80) at all and use "octante" instead.

"Quatre-vingt" (80) ethymology comes from celtic culture which was in base 20. It's a relevant example. Of course the French don't think "4x20+10+7" when they say "quatre-vingt-dix-sept". They think "quatre-vingt-dix" = 90 + 7 "sept". My point was that those languages reflects the fact that it's not obvious or natural for humans to count in base ten, it's a cultural concensus that took a long time to appear. Of course nowadays, the French and the Georgians count in base ten like everyone else. That is not the point I was making.

That has not always been the case. You might have seen videos mocking French because instead of 97 ("ninety-seven") they say four-twenty-and-seventeen. That's a leftover of a time when people counted in base 20 instead of base 10.

The Georgian language functions the same way. 74 is pronounced as "three-twenty-and-fourteen", 51 as "two-twenty-and-eleven".

Over time though, base ten has "won" as humans tend to count of their fingers and we have ten of those. Counting with your toes can't have been practical