Girls you should feel lucky that you are living in a country where you can live your life on your terms and conditions. You can take your own decisions, can go to abroad for higher studies, you can choose any career. You are having equal right.
Now think about those women who face so much of restrictions that even they cannot travel alone in any public transport, cannot go foreign, cannot wear any color accept black! Yes are you shocked after reading the above line, this above line is nothing we are going to tell you about some restrictions which Saudi women face in their daily life.
According to the World Economic Forum Saudi Arabia is ranked 129th out of 134 countries in terms of equality. In the Arab world, how do women actually live in this country, where women’s rights are specially controlled?
Let us have a look on some of restrictions faced by Saudi women’s :
Restriction on public transport-
Women of Saudi cannot take advantage to public transport as they are not allowed to use public transport.
Women can go by train but they have to sit in female couch only, that’s why mostly Saudi women prefer to walk.
Can wear only black clothes-
There women can wear black clothes only when they are going out from houses. There full body should be covered only face, hand and feet can be visible. Saudi women face lot of restrictions especially in their dressings; they cannot wear clothes like other western countries girls wear.
They don’t have right to take any decisions –
Yes Saudi women have to take permission with their guardians; they are not allowed to take any step of independence. Without taking permission of her husband women there cannot go to abroad or cannot take admission in any university by own choice.
Higher education but of no use-
Yes if we talk about education of women in Saudi they are highly educated but they cannot use this education as they are not allowed to work. Women can only work when their parents or husband gives permission to them.
There are separate restaurants for women-
Everything is unequal there, even when women go for outing there at any restaurant, beach or any public place women cannot sit with men. All public places there have separate area only for women. Women in Saudi do not have any fundamental right.
