Saudi Arabia has canceled a decades-old ban on driving cars by women. It is reported by The New York Times.
The innovation was announced on state TV and at the same time at a press conference in Washington. It will take effect in June 2018. As the newspaper notes, the decision underlines how much damage the ban caused to the international reputation of the Kingdom.
For decades, officials gave him a different explanation. Mentioned, for example, that women driving contrary to the Saudi culture. Or that male drivers will not know how to behave, if the neighboring vehicle behind the wheel. It was noted even that the admission of women to management will lead to promiscuity and collapse of the Saudi family. One of the senior scholars, without proof, claimed, for example, that driving harms the ovaries.
After the fall in oil prices, Saudi Arabia is trying to restructure the economy and not to depend on hydrocarbons, and motivates citizens to seek employment in promising sectors of the economy. Many women of the Kingdom were forced to order a taxi to go to work, which reduced their income and not motivated to continue working.