Saudi Arabia Will Let Women Drive

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

On Tuesday, September 26, 2017, it will be marked in the history of Saudi Arabia, since its government announced that women will have the right to drive cars.

Although it may seem unusual, the news is a great victory for the women of the Asian country, since it was the only nation in the world that still had such a policy.

As revealed by a report in The New York Ti month newspaper on its online site, this Saudi government policy had become for many organizations, fighting for gender equality, a symbol of the oppression of which the victims are victims. women in that nation.

In a press conference delivered in Washington by the ambassador of the oil nation in the United States, Prince Khalid bin Salman, assured that Saudi women will be able to obtain a driver's license without having to have the approval of their husband, father or son.

Very good news for them, considering that according to the laws of the Arab nation, women cannot travel, work or have medical procedures, among other things, without the prior permission of a guardian, who must be a man..

Although the new determination will take effect only until June 2018, Saudi Arabia's leaders already hope that this will help the country's economy, since it will allow more women to join the working life, since they will not have to spend large amounts of money. part of his salary paying a driver.