Obstacles to women's career development in Saudi Arabia
A recent study done by Sanaa Halawani found that several cultural barriers still prohibit women's success in career development.
Halawani says most Saudis are not ready to accept women as professionals. In research for her just-completed MBA in England, she investigated the current situation concerning women’s employment in the Saudi private sector. She examined the reasons for the low percentage of women working in the private sector as well as human resource management policies that affect women’s employment.Saudi culture still looks at a woman’s principal role in life as getting married and taking care of her house and children. This is why women are still held back in their careers, explained Halawani.
Some of things prohibiting women include family pressures, men not wanting to work in the same office as women, unfair hiring practices and innappropriate training on behalf of the employer.
via Arab News.
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Someone has to explain to me what the Muslims have against women. The Koran supposedly tells them to revere and protect women but they seem to hate them or think they're dirty or something. What's up with that?
Whoever said religions are consistent?
That sounds a lot like Christianity.
The easiest way to control women is to place them in a spiritually "special" place, and then "protect" her.
well, it does say pretty clearly in the qu'ran that a woman is not an equal to a man in business...
i forget the exact quote, but it's something along the lines that, in order for a woman to negotiate a binding contract, either another woman or man must be present on her side of the negotiations... something like that...
so, islam hasn't really valued men and women as equals any more than christianity...
however, the implications of the passage i'm dimly recalling are also that women have been business people since the time of the prophet...
oh, yeah, and when did revere and protect ever translate to "value as you value yourself"?... sounds a lot like putting women on a pedestal... and if a woman decides to step off that pedestal to seize her own destiny, well then that's just messed up and no self-respecting man should have anything to do with her...
but that's just a cliché... attitudes like that don't happen in real life.