Finally Saudi Arabia Agrees To Let Women Drive

 Finally Saudi Arabia Agrees To Let Women Drive


Saudi Arabia  government announced that it would allow women to drive and issue them driving licenses.

The following announcement was made to draw an end to a long standing policy that didn't allow women behind the wheels.

The policy will take effect in June 2018 and it was announced on state television and in a simultaneous media event in Washington.

Saudi officials and clerics have provided numerous explanations for the ban over the years. Some said that it was inappropriate in Saudi culture for women to drive, or that male drivers would not know how to handle women in cars next to them.

Others argued that allowing women to drive would lead to promiscuity and the collapse of the Saudi family while one cleric claimed — with no evidence — that driving harmed women’s ova

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