A 26-year-old Saudi Arabian woman, Reema Al Juffali, has broken the glass-ceiling by becoming the first woman from the country to take part in competitive racing. The kingdom gave women the legal rights to drive only in June last year. Three months after the ban was lifted, Reema became the first Saudi woman to earn a racer’s licence. […]

On June 24, Saudi Arabia had announced that women are legally allowed to drive. Just a week later, on July 3, a woman’s car was set on fire by men who are opposing the new rule of allowing women to drive, Gulf News reported. The woman whose car was damaged is Salma al-Sherif, a 31-year-old cashier based near the city of Mecca, […]

In a bid to make life a wee bit shocking for Saudi’s women, the kingdom has now crossed every line and lived up to its gender parity expectation to the fullest. Jina, a Kurdish woman, shared this video on Twitter with the caption, “I’m dying at this fashion show in Saudi, they weren’t allowed, female models”. Watch […]

Saudi Aramco, the Saudi kingdom’s oil giant, on April 29 appointed a woman as a member of its board of directors. This is the first time in the firm that a woman — US-based Lynn Laverty Elsenhans (60) — is included in the panel with four more new appointees. Elsenhans has previously worked as the […]

Amidst the latest cyclone of societal changes in Saudi Arabia, women yet again witnessed a landmark development. For the first time ever, they were allowed to watch men wrestle live in the ring. Photos of women in Saudi Arabia cheering on in a World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.’s Greatest Royal Rumble went viral on Friday. This was the first […]

In a bid to make life a wee bit entertaining for Saudi’s men and women, the kingdom is now set to reopen its first cinema in more than 35 years. The grand opening is on April 18 in capital Riyadh. The cinema will host both men and women, the authorities said this week. A source told Reuters that […]

Since Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 32, has taken charge, his progressive moves to bring fundamental rights and to provide more opportunities to women are being praised worldwide. The powerful prince landed in the United States on Monday (March 19) to meet Donald Trump. In an interview with CBS News, the prince was asked if women […]