Competing against 3,500 participants from across the globe, an all-female team of Saudi students landed a major win at P&G’s (Procter & Gamble) CEO Challenge, walking away with the competition’s first prize in a remarkable performance.
Saudi Arabia’s enduring ban on female drivers has been lifted; a historic moment with local celebrations and global media frenzy to boot. On the morning of June 24, the decree allowing Saudi women to drive officially came into effect.
Saudi Arabia’s lift on its enduring ban on female drivers is a historic moment. For the Kingdom’s private sector, it also makes for very lucrative business.
Only a few days separate women in Saudi Arabia from the driver’s seat. The Kingdom is counting down to the lift of an enduring driving ban on women, and one of the most historic developments reshaping its sociocultural dynamics.
In a new recommendation calling for women’s inclusion in the judicial field, a number of Saudi Shura Council members (the Shura council is the general consultative assembly of Saudi Arabia) are rallying for the employment of specialized and qualified f
Sheikh Abdullah Al-Mutlaq, member of the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars, is calling on the Kingdom’s Grand Mufti, Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah Al-Sheikh, to appoint female Muftis (Muslim legal experts who hold official power to give rulings on religious m
Exactly a year ago, on June 11, 2017, Saudi women would see the tides change, rewind and reverse what seemed to be a rather inflexible status quo on their rights and roles.
While a spate of top-down decisions have been driving the Kingdom’s agenda for women empowerment, Saudi women in power themselves are pushing this agenda to greater ambitions and impact.
The countdown to the official ban lift on Saudi female drivers is coming to an end, and with it, the many speculations around its rollout across the Kingdom.
Not long after the Saudi General Department of Traffic issued the first national driver’s licenses for nine Saudi women did the news make headlines of international media, and not without reason; for many Western observers, this development is nothing
