{"id":64255,"date":"2018-05-08T18:44:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T13:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=64255"},"modified":"2018-05-08T18:44:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T13:44:05","slug":"driving-ban-on-women-to-lift-in-saudi-arabia-from-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=64255","title":{"rendered":"Driving ban on women to lift in Saudi Arabia from June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RIYADH May 8 (TNS):<\/strong> Saudi Arabia will likely lift the driving ban on women in the kingdom from June 24, as Arab News quoted the General Department of Traffic Director General Mohammed Al-Bassami saying \u201cSaudi women will likely to be allowed drive from June 24.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cAll the requirements for women in the kingdom to start driving have been established,\u201d Bassami was quoted as saying in a statement released by the government.<br \/>\nIn September 2017, a royal decree announced the end of a decades-long ban on women driving \u2014 the only one of its kind in the world.<br \/>\nWomen 18 years of age and older will be allowed to apply for a driver\u2019s license, Bassami said.<br \/>\nDriving schools for women have been set up across five cities in the kingdom, and teachers will include Saudi women who obtained their licenses abroad.<br \/>\nWomen with foreign driving licenses will be able to apply for a local one through a separate process, which will also assess their driving skills.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is no secret that many women in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia hold driving licenses from abroad,\u201d the statement added.<br \/>\nSaudi women have previously petitioned the government for the lifting of the ban, and even taken to the wheel in protest.<br \/>\nCrown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 32, is seen as the force behind the lifting of the ban, part of a series of reforms being pushed by the powerful royal in the conservative kingdom.<br \/>\nHis Vision 2030 reform plan for a post-oil era seeks to elevate women to nearly one-third of the workforce, up from about 22 percent now.<br \/>\nThe decision to allow women to drive could give them the much-needed mobility to join the workforce.<br \/>\nSaudi women now no longer need male permission to start a business.<br \/>\nBut Saudi activists say the social change will only be cosmetic without dismantling the kingdom\u2019s rigid guardianship system, which requires women to seek permission from a male relative to study, travel and other activities.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Arab News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH May 8 (TNS): Saudi Arabia will likely lift the driving ban on women in the kingdom from June 24, as Arab News quoted the General Department of Traffic Director General Mohammed Al-Bassami saying \u201cSaudi women will likely to be allowed drive from June 24.\u201d \u201cAll the requirements for women in the kingdom to start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64256,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64255\/revisions\/64256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}