Since Sundip Patel began expanding his business in Saudi Arabia three years ago, he says there’s been “astounding” growth in the kingdom structurally and socially. As the cofounder and CEO of Avana ...

How oppressed are women in Saudi Arabia? Well, the World Economic Forum ranked Saudi Arabia near the bottom in its 2015 Global Gender Gap Index, with the country falling at 134 out of 145 countries.

Women will be able drive in Saudi Arabia from next year, it’s been confirmed. Saudi King Salman issued a decree on Tuesday ordering that women be allowed on the roads, state media reported. The ...

09 March 2006 DAMMAM: Saudi women educators who attended the three-day conference here on the problems of women deans, professors and administrators in college and universities across the Kingdom want ...

2:25 Critics question Saudi Arabia joining UN Commission on Status of Women Saudi Arabia, a country accused of having an atrocious human rights record for treatment of women, has been elected to the ...

Saudi women are in the driver’s seat for the first time in their country and steering their way through busy city streets just minutes after the world’s last remaining ban on women driving was lifted ...

While change is happening, institutionalizing it may take longer. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- I was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for the second time in six months and could feel the change between my visits ...

Saudi women drove to work and ran errands on Sunday, relishing the freedom to move about without relying on men after the kingdom lifted the world's last remaining ban on women driving. It's a ...

Our journalism is supported by readers like you. Click here to support The Tyee. Young Saudi woman: Photo: Wikipedia. When King Abdullah's speech was released by the Saudi Press Service on Sunday, my ...

Women will be allowed to drive for the first time next summer in Saudi Arabia, the ultra-conservative kingdom announced Tuesday, marking a significant expansion of women's rights in the only country ...