Saudi Women Join Forces to Champion the Changing Role of Women

In Saudi Arabia, a group of women are preparing an unusual event to mark International Women's Day — a campaign to highlight the changing role and economic potential of women in the deeply conservative Islamic kingdom. Saudi Arabia is well known as the world's most gender-segregated nation, where women live under the supervision of a male guardian, cannot drive, and in public must wear head-to-toe black garments. But since 2011 when the late King Abdullah declared women could...

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