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  • Women in Finance: Saudi Arabia Looks to Embrace a More Inclusive Future

    Unfortunately, there were very few women who I could look up to as mentors during the initial years in my career. During my first four and a half years at Jadwa, I was the only woman at the company. However, by the time I joined SNB Capital in 2014, many more women had joined the Saudi workforce.

  • Saudi Arabian Football Federation To Launch Women’s League

    The Saudi Arabian Football Federation on Thursday announced that it will establish its first official women’s football league as part of wide-ranging strategic plan for the sport, titled “Our Tactics for Tomorrow.” SAFF President Yasser bin Hassan Al-Misehal said: “We have many ambitious goals in the upcoming years to promote women’s soccer through the launch of the first edition of the league for teams, whose players will form the first women’s national team.”

  • Saudi women drivers up by 500% in ride-hailing applications in 2021

    Saleh Al-Zuwaid, spokesman of the Public Transport Authority, said on Monday that the number of Saudi women drivers has shot up by over 500 percent from 600 to 3,900 drivers working in the ride-hailing applications during the year 2021.

  • First batch of Saudi women soldiers graduate

    It is noteworthy that Saudi Arabia opened its Armed Forces sector to women with allowing both genders to sign up through launching a unified admission portal in February this year. Military ranks from soldier to sergeant are available for women in the Saudi Arabia Army, Royal Saudi Air Defense, Royal Saudi Navy, Royal Saudi Strategic Missile Force and the Armed Forces Medical Services. Saudi women between the ages of 21 and 40 are allowed to apply for these posts.

  • SheWorks: The First Co-Working Space For Women in Saudi Arabia

    According to AboutHer.com,  SheWorks provides desks, office spaces, and conference rooms, offering start-up business consultation and governmental services to its clients, with workshops and classes to help “empower and educate female entrepreneurs.” The space also includes a meeting room that allows men to attend.

  • How the UAE and Saudi Arabia are expanding the representation of women in the workplace

    More female employees are joining workplaces and boardrooms in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, with gender equality a key target of a regional drive to improve environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards. While measurable progress has been achieved in recent years, there is room for further improvement in order to consolidate these changes into a lasting and broad-based transformation.

  • Saudi women on the rise but gender gap remains

    Recent research by Alnahda Society, a Saudi nonprofit organization dedicated to the empowerment of women, found gender gaps not only in workforce participation but also in career development and compensation, with Saudi women earning just SR57 for every SR100 earned by Saudi men, even after adjusting for differences in education levels and experience. This means that on average, Saudi men earn 43 percent more than women with similar education and experience. Overall, Saudi women have higher levels of education compared with Saudi men, but the men have more work experience.

  • Saudi women appointed to top roles at Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques for first time

    Sheikh Abdulrahman Al-Sudais, the organization’s president, appointed Dr. Al-Anoud Al-Aboud and Dr. Fatima Al-Rashoud as assistants to his office on Sunday, as part of a raft of administrative changes.

  • ‘Saudization move in malls will create 15,000 jobs for Saudi men and women’

    He pointed out that the professions and trades exempted from the decision of localization include specific professions, which are cleaning, shipment, unloading and barber shops, in addition to some technical professions such as maintenance of toys.

  • Princess Reema shares her pride for Saudi women at the Olympics

    “So very proud of Yasmeen Aldabbagh & Tahani Al-Gahtani for their representation of Saudi women in the ultimate field of sports: The Olympics,” she said, also adding they were already ready to head to the next Games in 2024.