Saudi Sheik: Ovaries Get Damaged When Women Drive

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Re: Saudi Sheik: Ovaries Get Damaged When Women Drive

@Deeba1234

Some of these are shocking:

Marriage and divorce

• A girl of any age can be forced into marriage by her male guardian.
• A woman of any age requires the consent of her male guardian to enter into marriage.
• A woman can be forcibly divorced from her husband at the behest of her male guardian.

Education

• A girl cannot be educated without the consent of her male guardian.
• A woman cannot continue her education without the consent of her husband or male guardian.

Freedom of movement

• A woman cannot get a passport without the permission of her husband or male guardian.
• A woman cannot travel, or take her children anywhere, without the permission of her husband or male guardian.

Healthcare

• A woman cannot be admitted to, or discharged from, a government hospital without the permission of her husband or male guardian.
• A woman cannot make decisions regarding medical care, including family planning, for herself or her children without the permission of her husband or male guardian.

Employment and agency

• In the few jobs that are permitted to a Saudi woman, she cannot be employed without the approval of her husband or male guardian.
• Irrespective of age or educational attainment, a woman cannot run a business unless it is in the name of her husband or male guardian and she has his permission to manage it.
• A woman cannot access government agencies without women-only sections unless she is accompanied by her husband or male guardian.

Access to justice

• A woman cannot enter a police station to file a complaint unless she is accompanied by her husband or male guardian.
• A woman cannot file a court case or even appear before a judge without the presence of her husband or male guardian.

Source: Saudi Arabia: Women under Perpetual Guardianship of Male Relatives | Equality Now

You forgot the most important one:

**A woman cannot call herself a woman unless her husband or male guardian says so. **

I have spent sixteen years in Saudi Arabia, and save for the enlightened 5 or 10 percent there, most Saudi men consider women their asset, an object, not a human being. I mean, most of these Arabs are at least two hundred years behind when it comes to human rights. Couple this with their backward traditions that they follow, and the situation becomes even more bleak.

But despite all this, like Pakistan (but to a much lesser extent) things are changing in Saudi Arabia.