Saudi Government Now Monitors Women Leaving the Country by Sending Text Alerts to Their Male Guardians

A funny — and by funny, we of course mean so absolutely terrifying that the only reaction is to hold yourself and laugh like a committed Batman villain — thing happened last week in Saudi Arabia. Saudi women's male guardians began receiving helpful text messages informing them when the women under their charge leave…

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Saudi Arabia Allows Women to Serve as Attorneys in Court — Can Looking at People Be Far Behind?!

After a year and a half-long push, a small victory for women in the Kingdom of Saud — female attorneys who fit certain criteria will be allowed to present arguments in court. Now if only they were allowed to drive, vote, travel without a male escort, run out of a burning building while not wearing hair covering, or …

1,000 Nigerian Women Are Stuck in Saudi Arabia Airports Because They're Not Accompanied By the Right Kind of Men

Around 1,000 Nigerian women have been stranded at airports in Saudi Arabia for five days running because of a rule that says they must be accompanied by a husband or male relative while taking the Muslim Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca — a trip that's pretty much mandatory for able-bodied Muslims to take at least once in…

Thanks to Workplace Segregation, Saudi Women Are Getting Their Very Own ‘Cities’ to Work In

Saudi Arabia is so committed to its policy of segregating the genders that it is going to build an entire city just for women to work in all by themselves. The women-only industrial city, to be built within the Eastern Province city of Hofuf, is just the first of what could be many zones that the Gulf kingdom aims to…

So How Much of An Impact Will Saudi's Female Olympians Have On Gender Equality? Apparently Not a Lot

Saudi Arabia's decision to send women to the London Olympics for the first time this year lasted right up to the wire vis a vis ongoing talks with the International Olympic Committee, finally reaching the decision to the affirmative just two weeks ago. It was only to be expected that the first sight of Saudi Arabian…

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