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Title: Women drivers ... Post by: grahame on September 27, 2017, 11:03:40 From the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-women-drive.html?smid=fb-share)
Quote Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that it would allow women to drive, ending a longstanding policy that has become a global symbol of the oppression of women in the ultraconservative kingdom. And not before time ... Title: Re: Women drivers ... Post by: TaplowGreen on September 27, 2017, 11:10:42 From the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-women-drive.html?smid=fb-share) Quote Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that it would allow women to drive, ending a longstanding policy that has become a global symbol of the oppression of women in the ultraconservative kingdom. And not before time ... Serious point - women commonly are obliged by family/tradition to wear the niqab in Saudi Arabia when out of the house.............surely this compromises their (and others) safety whilst driving in terms of restricted peripheral vision? Title: Re: Women drivers ... Post by: chrisr_75 on September 27, 2017, 11:19:37 From the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-women-drive.html?smid=fb-share) Quote Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that it would allow women to drive, ending a longstanding policy that has become a global symbol of the oppression of women in the ultraconservative kingdom. And not before time ... Serious point - women commonly are obliged by family/tradition to wear the niqab in Saudi Arabia when out of the house.............surely this compromises their (and others) safety whilst driving in terms of restricted peripheral vision? Given what I have heard about the appalling general standards of driving in the middle east, I don't think niqab wearing is likely to make a lot of difference! Title: Re: Women drivers ... Post by: Tim on September 27, 2017, 15:24:02 An Arabic colleague of mine who has lived in SA (and hated it because of how she was treated as a woman). Is sceptical of this change. She says it is likely that foreign women will be allowed to drive but locals only if their males guardians permit it (which most will not)
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