What exactly is empowering for a Muslim woman to know her testimony to be half of that of one man?
-Or that she needs four witnesses to corroborate that she was assaulted by a man, the presence of four others meaning that they were involved in the act as well rather than preventing it?
-Or that she needs a male relative as an escort anywhere she goes?
-Or that her wages though are her own to do as she pleases but other hadiths (dubious perhaps) derived from the region's culture, pressurise her to submit them to the in-laws?
-Or that she can't adopt a child; not everyone gets married or has kids, adoption would solve the orphan problem and give support to widows, unmarried or divorced women without kids?
-Or that she inherits only 1/3 from her father's inheritance (don't come up with the crap of inheriting from her husband as well), read the point above this for the logic.
Also in case the family has only daughters, the inheritance automatically goes to the father's male relatives, maybe dubious hadiths, but it's law in the subcontinent at least.
-Or that she is put in a hole in the ground up to her chest when stoned for adultery with no recourse to escape, with the problematic law of witness testimonials mentioned above; but the hole dug for the man accused of the same is up to waist level from which he can dig himself up and escape the stoning.
-Or that polygamy is allowed with the strict injunction that it's not possible for an average earning person to do just to the multiple wives in terms of time, maintenance and affection, yet even in the 21st century Muslim men abandon wives they don't like to go for younger ones. 

I could go on and on about the more than 3,000 misogynist hadiths from the 7,000 compiled by the various imams - Sahih, Muslim, etc but even these few are enough to show the Sharia laws codified by the Abbasids 200 years after the Prophet's death in 632 AD were put together by male ulema in alliance with the expansionist Caliphs ( Ahmed T Kuru, Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison). 

Lady Khadija was older than the Prophet, a businesswoman, widow, proposed marriage to him and accepted his visions of the angel in the Hira Cave (also implying pre-Islamic women were freer than post ones). But if by 632 AD the core message of Islam was empowerment of women, as is evident in the Prophet's sermon, after his death, the injustice to his daughter Lady Fatima rendered all of the message of empowerment nullified. 

1400 years later Muslims follow the misogynist Abbasid version of Islam rather than the Last Sermon and hence daughter after daughter, wife after wife, sister after sister becomes destitute because twits like you make this blanket statement and shut down any counter with "Islamophobia" rant.