![]() ![]() When you leave the house, you, a medical doctor - a dentist - do you have to have permission of a man to do that?ĪL SANEA: Yes. Al Sanea, I mean, we know that, as we've mentioned, women do not have the right to drive. Those are fields that have not been allowed for women back in the days.īLOCK: At the same time, Dr. The majority of us, we're only allowed to work as either teachers or doctors back in the '90s or the '80s or even in the early 2000s, but nowadays we see women working in courts. I have an older sister who struggled much more than me to get her education abroad. ![]() RAJAA AL SANEA: I don't think that I had a very high chance of studying abroad before the introduction of King Abdullah scholarship program, which was introduced in 2005. That's how Rajaa Al Sanea attended graduate school in Chicago. ![]() But one of the steps forward came in the form of a scholarship program that allows women to study outside the country. Saudi women are still not allowed to drive or even travel without permission from a man. We heard Scott say that under the late Saudi King Abdullah there were baby steps taken toward improving women's rights. ![]()
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