Yeah, that's basically it. Respect for civil rights, individual rights, etc.
Somewhere there's a list of the seven highly effective habits of modern nations, or something like that, which tries to develop subjective criteria for what culture oughta try to be like. Is the culture productive? Do the rulers have the consent of the governed? Women's rights is one of the seven items if I recall. But no amount of googling could find the list...
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