The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is one of the mostconservative states in the world. Here strict segregation of women is observed mainly outside the walls of the house. Saudi Arabian women have very limited rights. This is due to the great influence of religious leaders and the peculiarities of the laws of the country, based on Islamic law.
Woman's life in saudi arabia
Every adult resident of the Kingdom oweshave a guardian - a close male relative. Without the consent of the guardians, women in Saudi Arabia are deprived of the opportunity to travel, obtain licenses to conduct business, work, study at a college or university. Training is allowed only in a female environment, male teachers can communicate with female students only on internal television.
Even in cases where by law the consent of the guardiannot required, the authorities are turning to him for permission. Without the permission of a husband or guardian, women in the welfare state do not receive medical care. There are no laws prohibiting violence against women in the country, but there are a great many legislative norms that reinforce the dominant position of men. Thus, men enjoy the right to have several wives at the same time, to divorce them unilaterally, without putting forward legal justifications. For women, obtaining a lawful divorce is very difficult. A female heir can claim a share of the inheritance that is half the size of a male heir. Residents of the country have no right to drive a car. They are obliged to cover their faces, hair, and wear abaya — a long black dress that hides the figure.
Conservative men agreed to empower women of Saudi Arabia
In 2011King Abdullah issued a decree allowing women to participate in municipal elections. Moreover, residents of the country have the right to sit in the Royal Consultative Council, which previously consisted exclusively of men.
Undeniable progress has been made in sports:In the summer of 2012, for the first time in history, two women from Saudi Arabia participated in the Olympics (photo). In April 2013, the world spread news of the new generosity of the men of the Kingdom. They allowed their ladies to ride bicycles and motorcycles, but they introduced a number of restrictions. First, Saudis cannot ride without being accompanied by a husband or another male person who is related to her. Secondly, you can ride only along the cycle paths of parks and in other specially designated places, located as far as possible from the places where men gather. Finally, the last limitation: women of Saudi Arabia can only ride a bike or a motorcycle, only wrapped from head to toe in a national dress - abaya. It remains to add that the observance of these rules is monitored by religious police, who suppress any attempts to violate the canons of Islam.
Despite some reforms, in certainTo the extent that the legal status of Saudi women improves, discrimination continues to exist. The stability of Islamic customs and traditions does not allow us to hope for rapid, progressive changes in the situation of women in Saudi Arabia, which does not conform to modern legal norms, which fix the status of women in international law.
