So a whole bunch of countries are attached to tenets, rules, expectations and laws which you don't like. It can't just be Islamic countries...... can't be...... and so, it's up to the citizens and subjects of those countries to decide what they want. Let's face it, the west only interferes when value, riches, money, power, status and wealth are involved.
But where I live Muslim women are being given support towards equality in ever way, and if they still want to wear the hijab, a very few of them, for whatever reasons, then that's their prerogative.