Many cultural and media studies suggest that female journalists often focus on ‘soft’ stories, such as social welfare and local issues, and that their questioning style tends to be more cautious and polite. However, the performance of women in press conferences, particularly within Arab countries...
The driving ban has long forced families to hire live-in drivers for women. Women who can't afford the $300 to $400 a month for a driver must rely on male relatives to drive them to work, school, shopping or the doctor. The ban is part of the general restrictions imposed on women ...
Restrictions on women travelling alone resulted in the interviews being confined to one city. The interviewer was familiar with hospital managers and permission was first sought from the Medical Director of the city's main hospital. He sought assurances over the purposes of the research; that the ...
Women are anticipated to decorate modestly and conservatively, while men generally take on sure monetary responsibilities inside the relationship, similar to paying for dinner dates, etc. Dates ought to all the time take place inside private settings similar to someone’s residence as an alternative ...
Saudi Arabia, which has some of the world’s tightest restrictions on women, requires them to wear the garment by law. The government has not said whether it will change the law, but this is the first such comment from a senior religious figure. ...
Its historic decision to allow women to drive from next June has been cheered inside the kingdom and abroad — and comes after decades of resistance from female activists, many of whom were jailed for flouting the ban. Saudi Arabia has some of the world’s tightest restrictions on women. ...
However, its restrictions on women's athletics have loosened in recent years with the government first formally allowing girls' sports in private schools four years ago. Earlier this year, the country began issuing licenses for women's gyms, which had previously operated informally under salon and...
Saudi Arabia imposes many restrictions on women on the strict interpretation of Islamic Shariah law known as Wahhabism. Genders are strictly segregated. Women are banned from driving, although there have beencampaigns in recent years to lift that ban. Guardianship laws also require women to get per...
Due to religious and social restrictions, Saudi women and activists understand their shortcoming about free public mobility and limited freedom of speech and expression. As an outcome, they are now tactically using online platforms and social media to organize and express their ideas resulting in ...
Now, we have to wait and see what king of image they would create of women in order to justify imposing more restrictions on them. (Dr. Badreya al-Bishr is a multi-award winning Saudi columnist and novelist. A PhD graduate from the American University of Beirut and an aluminus of the ...