 When they do become active politically, they are seen as being influenced by the United States and trying to push a liberal agenda.Constitutionally, women lost a number of key rights after the United States entered Iraq.The Family Statutes law, which guarantees women equal rights when it comes to marriage, divorce, inheritance, and custody, was replaced by one that gave power to religious leaders and allowed them to dictate family matters according to their interpretation of their chosen religious text.