Talk:Women's rights in Saudi Arabia

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Arts and culture

I'm going to try to create an article Draft:Saudi women in the arts covering topics such as music, theatre, film, and the visual arts. Please feel free to participate in drafting the page. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:15, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Watch this space

Tracking news about further developments following the end of the driving ban. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 06:34, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

• "Saudi Arabia to allow women into sports stadiums as reform push intensifies". the Guardian. AFP. 30 October 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2017.

Brief critique.

Women rights in Saudi Arabia is poor, women have to ask their husband to go outside of the house, event though in emergency situations women can not go hospitals unless their family allow. As I met a female friend in Saudi, she says that I can not get a Taxi driver to get me home, because all drivers are male and she has to wait for her brother to pick her up from school. This is also a matter of fair, women are forbidden from driving and that cause a poor community service as well as limitation of women rights in Saudi Arabia.Mohammed ALrajhi (talk) 02:54, 11 December 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mohammed ALrajhi (talk • contribs) 04:30, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

TODO: Switch to absolute time instead of relative time

As stated in WP:RELTIME, "Absolute specifications of time are preferred to relative constructions using recently, currently, and so on, because the latter may go out of date.". This is a huge article and much of it needs to be switched to absolute time so that the content will remain valid no matter if it's frequently edited or not. Outdated information that the reader immediately realises is outdated is better than outdated (and now wrong) information stated to be true "now". See WP:RELTIME for more discussion and wording suggestions. Boud (talk) 00:31, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

News again?

Isn't it 25th May 2018 with news again? Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 01:23, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Editing article to include women driving

Women being allowed to drive has been written into the article, but there are still many areas which state that women are not allowed to drive. For instance, under the "Employment" subheading of "Economic rights," the article states:

A woman's work should not lead to her traveling without a close male relative—which presents considerable problems as women are not allowed to drive motor vehicles and there is little or no public transportation in the Kingdom.

The article must be combed through to look for other instances like this. I would do it myself, but I feel that it should be done by someone who is more well-versed on the topic. - Hemarcello (talk) 20:44, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

PBS source

I've restored the PBS sourced statement and removed the reliability tag. The source is reliable and contains the information it's claimed to contain. Other quotes do not disprove the existence of this quote, and the quote isn't saying he was great and awesome, just that there weren't codified legal rights before that. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 18:04, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Perhaps we should attribute the claim. However, just by looking at the page, I can't immediately see who writes it. —PaleoNeonate – 10:10, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Incorrect source

There was a source which has been removed. I've removed it because it is incorrect, women can play sports. But this source says that they cannot. "https://www.theweek.co.uk/60339/things-women-cant-do-in-saudi-arabia%7Ctitle=Six things women in Saudi Arabia still can’t do ".

Other sections in the article say that they 129.127.32.138 (talk) 06:12, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

@129.127.32.138: If you remove other people's contributions, then you need to update it with better information and cite good quality sources. Please read up in WP:NOT, WP:MOS, WP:CITE and have a look at WP:CHEAT for some handy links to other information, including the use of the various "cite" templates, so that you can improve your style of referencing. As mentioned on other pages, it is better that you slow down, learn as you, and think about quality rather than quantity when you are editing here. You also have a welcome panel on your user page which will help to guide you. If you look at the change I made to your addition about the Mecca school fire, it will give you an idea of the encyclopaedic style which is expected here. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 02:41, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

renaming the article

This article’s name should be changed from “women’s right in Saudi Arabia” to “Women in Saudi Arabia” just like the majority of the countries has that article’s name especially the gulf states, the reason why I’m submitting this request is because the country has been progressed in the recent years in terms of women’s right and women there nearly had every rights as of February 2022, from Establishing Women National team to allowing female judges and many others. Saudi Arabia was also ranked in January 2020 as the best Arab country for women, so using the current article’s name gives people negative kind of stereotype about the women there. so new article must be established with new name and with new content, however that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t include the history of women’s right from pre Islamic to the current era. Aziz bm (talk) 22:30, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

No. Women's rights is the correct term in this situation. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 01:16, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

The current situation is great, you have been reported right now for vandalizing middle eastern pages to use your own agenda Aziz bm (talk) 12:18, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Women's rights in Saudi Arabia

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Women's rights in Saudi Arabia's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Murphy":

• From Najd: David Murphy (2008). The Arab Revolt 1916–18: Lawrence Sets Arabia Ablaze. pp. 5–8. ISBN 978-1-84603-339-1.
• From Economy of Saudi Arabia: Murphy, Caryle (7 February 2012). "Saudi Arabia's Youth and the Kingdom's Future". Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Environmental Change and Security Program. Archived from the original on 26 February 2019. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
• From Saudi Arabia: Murphy, David (2008). The Arab Revolt 1916–18: Lawrence Sets Arabia Ablaze. pp. 5–8. ISBN 978-1-84603-339-1.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 07:35, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Women and Gender in the Middle East

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Hi JohnnyPedro1998, you failed to give an edit summary. Can you explain your edit? Stara Marusya (talk) 22:13, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Veils in Saudi Arabia before 1979

I have heard, that before the 1979 Qatif Uprising, there was not yet a law that required women to wear a veil in Saudi Arabia, and that it was not until after 1979 that the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Saudi Arabia) started to enforce the veil. I heard that before 1979, some Saudi women did not veil in public, that Queen Iffat wore Western clothing and that there were female news anchors without veils. In short, that Saudi Arabia was starting to become a bit more liberalised in the 1960s and 1970s but that this development stopped after the Islamic revolution in neighboring Iran. Is this true? I know that the law requiring Saudi women to vear weils was dropped in 2018, but I can't find any year for when it was first put in place. Were there Saudi women not wearing veils in Saudi Arabia prior to 1979, and was it legal? The article Women's rights in Saudi Arabia does not really describe this, it mostly describe the development since the 2010s. Thanks.--Aciram (talk) 18:18, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

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