Comments on: Double-team for Women’s Employment

By: AbuYusef

AbuYusef — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:35:33 +0000

It is interesting when the topic of work in Saudi Arabia is discussed noboby touches the issue of cultural roadblocks. Everyone is good at slogans and rhetoric but not action. My former students in Hassa were good with talk about jobs for saudis and the foreigners go home. So I asked a simple question who is going to let their daughter or wife work? A’outhu billah Haram akhi!! Lol. Question two was which one of you are going to work in construction, military, taxi driver, gas station etc. This work was below them. In every society someone has to take out the trash. You cannot have it both ways and select only suitable jobs are acceptable and leave the bad jobs for Shiites and foreigners. Yes I said Shiites because I was repeatedly told when I lived in Hofuf that if you see a Saudi doing manual labor he is a Shia.

By: Hala

Hala — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:45:09 +0000

Saudi women need the work opportunities whether mixed or not, it’s not a privilege it’s their right, they are now in a lousy position under the abuse & domination of their male relatives or the strict conditions the society require from them to appear in public…They need to be able to earn their own living and start shaping a new society where they can live independently with dignity…I feel sorry for those lines of women fighting for a lousy -paid job in a remote village across dangerous roads or a private job at a private business that pays them less than the cost of the transportation…these women need jobs and laws to protect their rights, they also need to be at first away from the direct contact with the public since the lousy working conditions in the service sectors (shops or supermarkets for instance) can fuel the rejection of the society if there were customers offenses (& there will be) to the women…We should start by banks, factories, airlines offices, companies and governmental sectors like government agencies and municipalities…and we need both men & women leaders to take a stand in this!!!

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:01:49 +0000

No. The directive says it is the job of the Ministry of Labor to oversee the implementation of the law, not any other authority, religious or otherwise.

By: lirun

lirun — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:20:38 +0000

doesnt that just mean that the whole issue has been handed over to the religious authorities? isnt that just further entangling state and religion?

By: Global Voices Online » Saudi Arabia: Regulating Women’s Work

Global Voices Online » Saudi Arabia: Regulating Women’s Work — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:02:57 +0000

[...] is moving towards introducing more regulations with regards to women's employment, reports Saudi Jeans, who comments on a new ‘vague' law just introduced in the Kingdom. Posted by Amira Al [...]