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The King’s Advisory Body – Nine Things Women Can’T Do In Saudi Arabia

The dress code was extended to all female television presenters last year.

Conforming to Arab News, the king’s advisory body. Ruled they should wear modest clothes that do not show off their beauty. Whenever everything in Saudi Arabia operates on a sliding scale, relying upon what you are, whom you know, whom you ask, whom you’re with, and where you are, adds Dowd.

Saudi journalist Talal Alharbi says women may be allowed to drive -but only to take their children to school or a family member to hospital. Women should accept simple things, he writes for Arab News. Then again, this is a wise thing women could do at this stage. That’s interesting. Being stubborn won’t support their cause. Make sure you leave suggestions about it below. In 2011, the Women2Drive campaign encouraged women to disregard the laws and post images and videos of themselves driving on social media to raise issue awareness in an attempt to force change. You should take it into account. It was not a major success.

In a country where a woman cannot even open a bank account without her husband’s permission, here are a couple of other things they are still unable to do.

With Saudi clerics arguing that female drivers undermine social values, deeply held religious beliefs prohibit it, there is no official law that bans women from driving.

Things are slowly beginning to modernise in a country that has historically had quite a few most repressive attitudes towards women. The dress code for women is governed by a strict interpretation of Islamic law and is enforced to varying degrees across the country. a bunch of women wear an abaya -a long cloak -and a head scarf. The face does not necessarily need to be covered, much to some chagrin hardliners, says The Economist. This does not stop the religious police from harassing women for exposing what they consider to be too much flesh or wearing too much ‘make up’.

Women are required to limit time amount spent with men to whom they are not related.

a lot of public buildings, including offices, banks and universities, have separate entrances for the different sexes, the Daily Telegraph reports. Public transportation, parks, beaches and amusement parks are also segregated in most country parts. Women typically face harsher punishment, unlawful mixing will lead to criminal charges being brought against both parties. Other more unusual restrictions on women’s lives include entering a cemetery and reading an uncensored fashion magazine.

Women are not allowed to use public swimming pools available to men and can only swim in private ones or ‘femaleonly’ gyms and spas.

Reuters editor Arlene Getz describes her experience of trying to use the gym and pool at an upmarket Riyadh hotel. I wasn’t even allowed to look at them -let alone use them, as a woman. Last year, Saudi Arabia proposed hosting a Olympic Games without women. Our society can be very conservative, said Prince Fahad bin Jalawi al Saud, a consultant to the Saudi Olympic Committee. It has a hard time accepting that women can compete in sports.

Hardline clerics denounced the competitors as prostitutes, when Saudi Arabia sent its female athletes to the London Games for the first time.

The women also had to be accompanied by a male guardian and cover their hair. Hardline clerics denounced the competitors as prostitutes, when Saudi Arabia sent its female athletes to the London Games for the first time. Nevertheless, the women also had to be accompanied by a male guardian and cover their hair.

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