Mohammed al-Hassani calls the government to get rid of the men at “the the head of every department related to girls’ education in the Kingdom.” He makes a good point, and asks some really good questions. “[W]hen everyone is calling for women to do more jobs and for additional jobs to be open to them. How can this worthwhile goal be achieved if the very jobs that should be done by women are given to men, thus forcing women to seek other and less rewarding employment?” I’m convinced.
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This issue of women not getting jobs, as many would live to believe, bugs me the most. I still don’t understand what the men are so scared off! Will they feel the male population not get jobs if the women take over? Do the men feel that by letting a women work will allow for temptations to creep in?
My mom was the director at the Dar Al Hanan school in Jeddah for the Adult Education Center, and she thankfully had a job. But I look at places like La Senza, Make Up Forever, Nayomi, Mac, Mikayji and I see all the men working there…serving the ladies bras and undergarments; men in these shops tell ladies how the make up should be put on. I mean, shouldn’t these places have women working in them. I know my sister is embarassed to go to a place like La Senza because she doesn’t like being served lingerie by a guy in there!
I was working on a project in Jeddah, at Business Park, and we were doing the renovation for the MBC offices. Guess what, there were women working in there, sharing the same office space as the men. It was a scene right out from some hollywood movie, you know how they show men and women interacting in offices, and guess what, everything went on as normal! I am sure they got special permission to work in there though.
I am convinced too by that statement.
Mansur
Yes Mansur, they most likely had to get permission to be aloud to work alongside men, I know for one thing that Sulaiman Al-Olayyan had to get special permission from Crown Prince Abdullah to let his daughter Lubna (CEO) to work in the same building as men, that was a while back, I know that now there are women working in the same building alongside men there but they also had to get special permission for that as well and the religious police (al Hay’a) are constantly threatening them and are a real pain the ass.
And I definitely agree that women should have equal job opportunity or ATLEAST do the jobs that are meant for them…. but UGH! That’s Saudi for you.
Its not like women will screw it up anymore than what it is. Perhaps a womans touch is what is needed in the ranks when it comes to the girls school system.
Personally I think the entire educational system here needs a huge revamping.