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- Title
Education and Women Empowerment in Saudi Arabia?
- Authors
Rather, Faisal Mohammad
- Abstract
In 2014, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia stunned the world with its incredible social transition when the 'Ministry of Education' released statistics which showed that more than half of the students graduating from the universities inside the country were the kingdom's women subjects and, a substantial number of female students were enrolled outside the country, most of them preferring to study in the United States. Every so often condemned as one of the most suppressive regimes towards women around the globe, the statistics came as a contradiction which suggested contrary to the popular belief. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had extensively taken up the task to encourage its female population to pursue education, not only inside the country but overseas as well. Saudi Arabia had embarked on the path of empowering its women population through education long ago when the Kingdom was officially established in 1932, however, not without obstructions and hindrances. The paper aims to explicate the role of education in the empowerment of women in Saudi Arabia.
- Subjects
SAUDI Arabia; WOMEN'S education; WOMEN; POWER (Social sciences); SOCIAL conditions of women; EDUCATION
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Chinese Studies, 2016, Vol 4, Issue 3, p96
- ISSN
2224-2716
- Publication type
Article