Saudi Arabia Making Women Only Cities

Saudi Arabia Making Women Only Cities

August 16, 2012

Coming to Saudi Arabia: The world’s first women-only city
theweek
The super-patriarchal Gulf kingdom is creating a female-only city to finally allow a huge percentage of its educated population to work freely
Saudi Arabia has a problem: The Persian Gulf kingdom has an increasingly educated, increasingly unemployed female population and ultraconservative laws and customs that forbid women from mingling, much less working, with men.

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