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  • Saudi Arabia to address women’s empowerment, economic representation during G20 presidency

    The presidency will focus on its current session on three main issues: empowering the human being by creating conditions that enable people - especially women and youth - to lead a decent life, work and prosperity, and preserve the land by promoting collective efforts, enacting sustainable economic policies, as well as shaping new horizons from Through the adoption of bold and long-term strategies to make the most of innovation and technical progress.

  • Commentary: The rise and fall of Saudi men and women’s fitness centers

    The workshop highlighted that male membership reached 900,000 (SR2.9 billion market value), while women members reached 200,000 (SR650 million market price). They also claim that an increase has been witnessed in men’s gyms and fitness centers from 485,000 in 2012 to 890,000 in 2017.

  • Saudi in renewed bid to empower women in judiciary: Report

    Two years after the Saudi Shura Council blocked a call for appointing women as Judges in the Kingdom, the consultative body is expected to vote on Wednesday on a recommendation specifically suggesting to appoint women as judges in the personal status courts, a media report said on Tuesday.

  • 53 women among 156 new investigative officials appointed at Saudi Public Prosecution

    There are 53 women among the newly appointed officials who will be responsible for investigating cases in a number of branches of the Public Prosecution in all parts of the Kingdom, Dr. Majid Al-Dosaimani, spokesman of the Public Prosecution. On Monday, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman appointed 156 investigative officials at the Public Prosecution with the rank of a lieutenant.

  • Coronavirus Frustrates Saudi Women’s Push for Financial Independence

    The pandemic has hammered Saudi Arabia’s nascent non-religious tourism industry - among the few new sectors to have emerged under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s drive to diversify the economy from oil and create millions of jobs. “It is very tough, but I keep telling myself things will get better after corona. One has to remain optimistic,” Howayan, whose online business has also slowed, told Reuters.

  • Houthi missile injures three women in Saudi Arabia

    Three women were wounded by a Houthi attack towards a town in the Saudi border region of Jazan, the Saudi Press Agency reported Tuesday.

  • As society opens, Saudi women surge into job market

  • Saudi women increase role in workforce in late 2019: Data

    Saudi Arabian women continue to make up an increasing part of the Kingdom’s workforce, with participation growing 2.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2019 to 26 percent, according to official data.

  • Womens inaugural event in Saudi Arabia rescheduled for October

    The first women's professional golf event to be staged in Saudi Arabia has been rescheduled for Oct. 8-11 after it was postponed last month due to the coronavirus pandemic, organisers have confirmed on Tuesday. The Saudi Ladies International, which is part of the Ladies European Tour (LET), will be hosted at the Royal Greens Golf & Country Club with a purse of $1 million, and is the first of its kind to be held in the kingdom.

  • Saudi Arabian Universities Push to Recruit Women Faculty

    Due to a lack of engineering education for women in Saudi Arabia, there is an insufficient number of women academics in this field to fill expanding STEM departments. This has motivated universities to turn overseas to recruit women professors to the kingdom. To do so, Sani says, universities offer generous remuneration packages with travel allowances and furnished accommodations.