Why Purdah is considered as a sign of backwardness?

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Re: Why Purdah is considered as a sign of backwardness?

@kakaballi

A hundred years ago, it was ‘inappropriate’ for American women to show their ankles in public. Now it is inappropriate to hide them

Taking-off clothes is seen as modern these days. Purdah definitely becomes out-dated in these times.

Was American women detained / secluded a hundred years ago?