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  • Saudi Volleyball Federation launches Kingdom’s first women’s tournament

    The Saudi Volleyball Federation (SVF) has launched the Kingdom’s first open volleyball tournament for women in September at Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University in Riyadh. It came during the first meeting of SVF’s Women’s Committee at the Saudi Olympic Committee’s headquarters.

  • Portrayal of Saudi women in art through the decades

    Saudi society has experienced tremendous developments over the past few decades, driven by successive development plans, which played a major role in driving social change and empowering women. Despite the relatively short history of Saudi Arabia’s art movement, art can be used as a tangible source of reflection on the country’s wider social context, particularly when it comes to the status of women.

  • Saudi Arabia’s retail market more investable as more women enter workforce, Majid Al Futtaim chief says

    "As you know, women now are working and their integration in the workforce is happening in a very good way. This will have a major impact on household income in Saudi Arabia," Alain Bejjani, Majid Al Futtaim Holding chief executive told The National.

  • First Saudi women to train as air traffic controllers in a foreign country graduate

    They and 30 of their countrymen celebrated the completion of their studies in a graduation ceremony at Massey University in Palmerston North on Thursday. They are the eighth class the Saudi Arabian General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) has sent to New Zealand for air traffic control training as part of an 11-year partnership with Kiwi company, Airways International.

  • Adidas announces landmark partnership with Challenge Team, Saudi’s first ever Women’s Football League champions

    Commenting on the partnership with the Riyadh based team, Rawh Al-Arfaj , Challenge Team Founder and CEO said, “We are honored to be the first female football team to be sponsored by adidas in Saudi Arabia. We’ve really seen Challenge Football Team gain momentum since the establishment of the first Women’s Football League in Saudi Arabia in 2020, and we hope to inspire girls and women in Saudi Arabia and beyond to pursue their passion.”

  • Women Are Getting More Jobs Than Ever in Changing Saudi Arabia

    Gender segregation—once strictly enforced by religious police—is gradually dissolving, not just among the metropolitan elites, but even in conservative provinces such as Qassim. Men and women who aren’t related can mingle openly at restaurants now. Many offices are mixed, as are music festivals and business and professional conferences.

  • Why are Saudi women suddenly starting to take jobs?

    Over the past few years, the Saudi Arabian government has made significant reforms to incentivize women to find employment and to protect them better on the job. These reforms also increased Saudi Arabia’s score in the World Bank Women, Business, and Law (WBL) database by almost 50 points (Figure 1) between 2016 and 2020. In parallel, female labor force participation rates improved at unprecedented rates, rising by 14 percentage points during the same time.

  • 51,000 women among 74,000 Saudis joined employment market in 2020

    The total number of Saudis who entered 19 sectors in the labor market during the last year reached 93,117. However, 19,350 of these employees left the employment market, bringing the total number of Saudi men and women who remained in the market to 73,767.

  • Saudi Arabia sees a spike in women joining the workforce, study says

    The labor force participation rate for women in Saudi Arabia increased from 20% to 33% in two years, according to the Brookings Institution.

  • Saudi Arabia to give COVID-19 jab to pregnant women as cases continue to rise

    Saudi Arabia’s daily case count has recently been fluctuating, with the number of active cases nearing the 10,000 mark, sparking fears that the rising number of serious cases could reach a critical point. The spokesman noted that though the decline of numbers is important, fluctuating numbers can be an indicator that they are stabilizing and could improve as residents continue to adhere to precautionary measures. With Sunday’s numbers, there are currently 9,759 active cases, of which 1,246 patients are in ICUs.