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  • Uber in Saudi Arabia
    How Uber Is Changing Life For Women In Saudi Arabia

    "Relative to other places, the government and semigovernment entities have been very ambitious and receptive to the technology," he says. "Saudis are very, very well traveled. During the summers and large breaks, they go off to Europe, North America, and Asia a lot, and they've been using Uber there. When we launched in Saudi, a lot of them had already used Uber around the world."

  • National Businesswomen's Conference 2015
    Saudi businesswomen to devise success strategy

    Asked about highlights of the business conference, Omairah bint Abdul Raheem, a businesswoman, said that the event would focus on new investment regulations, regulatory provisions of government agencies and developing skills of women in the workforce.

  • Reema Bint Bandar
    How Princess Reema Is Opening Doors For Women In Saudi Arabia

    Here, the words feminist, radical, activist, liberal, empowerment are not useful to my goals. I'll lose half my audience."

  • Women in the Workforce
    Saudi Women Are Joining the Workforce in Record Numbers

    The number of employed Saudi women has surged by 48 percent since 2010, more than double the rate for men, according to the country's Central Department of Statistics and Information. The change is especially noticeable in the private sector, where women can now be seen in an abaya and head scarf working as supermarket cashiers or selling lingerie in a high-end shopping mall.

  • Women
    Viral video sparks concern in Saudi over harassment of women

    In that video, the women are riding a quad bike on the promenade as the young men watch. One of the women tosses toward the men an "agal," the black rope worn by Saudi men over their traditional checkered head cloths. The young men break out in laughter and hooting at the gesture.

  • Women
    Saudi women travel with friends abroad without male guardian

    Several Saudi businesswomen started traveling with a group of friends after recent regulations which allow women to travel without their mahram. These women said they find great fun to travel as a group with their friends and their children, where they can achieve their goals of travel.

  • Women in Saudi
    Saudi women find ways into the workplace

    Saudis attribute the changing attitudes about women in the workplace to a number of factors, including the rising cost of living, improvements in women's education, the influence of the Internet and social media, and the modernizing efforts of the late King Abdullah, who paid for tens of thousands of young people of both genders to study abroad each year.

  • Women
    Saudi women ‘rising to the top with confidence’

    Afnan Al-Shuaiby, secretary general and chief executive officer of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce, based in London, made these comments recently at a GW Global Series meeting, organized by George Washington University.

  • Women in Saudi Arabia: Travel Restrictions
    Unrestricted movement ‘would enable Saudi women to contribute to growth’

    Several Saudi women here have welcomed the news that the Passport Department plans to draft regulations that would allow women to travel without permission from their mahrams.

  • Women
    Eighty women to run for Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province council

    There are over 80 women running for the Saudi Arabian Eastern Province city council elections in August with at least 10 female candidates contesting places on each municipal committee, a social activist told Al-Hayat.