Saudi Arabia's king issues order allowing women to drive
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King Salman ordered the
reform in a royal decree
delivered on Tuesday night,
requesting that
drivers licences be issued to
women who wanted them
Women in Saudi Arabia have
been granted the right to
drive, overturning a
cornerstone of
Saudi conservatism that had
been a cause celebre for
activists demanding reforms
in the
fundamentalist kingdom.
‘I felt like one of my father’s
songbirds, let out of its cage’:
driving as a woman in Saudi
Arabia
King Salman ordered the
reform in a royal decree
delivered on Tuesday night,
requesting that
drivers licences be issued to
women who wanted them.
The decision comes amid a
broad reform program that
last week led to women
being allowed
into a sports stadium for the
first time.
It is the most significant
change yet to a rigidly
conservative social order in
Saudi Arabia that
has strictly demarcated
gender roles, and severely
limits the role of women in
public life.
Earlier this month, a Saudi
cleric was banned from
preaching after saying that
women should
not be allowed to drive
because their brains shrink
to quarter the size of a man’s
when
they go shopping.
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