Saudi Women's Education and Work Opportunities: Equity Matters
In the context of Saudi Arabia, women are more likely to have fewer work opportunities and a lower income than their male counterparts. Alnajem [1] found that poor Saudi women suffer from a low level of education and lack of employment opportunities. She emphasizes that certain social and cultural factors interact to influence the women's experience as victims of poverty. However, the wave of globalization impacts on women's status; whereby Waterman [2] argues there is a global movement of women, which seems to be aware of the neoliberal discourse to free itself from the economic and politic determinants. This improvement in the economic and social status of women would balance the economic equation. Saudi women are not far from this movement, where many developments have occurred in their status so far. The impact of gender inequality on women's status in Saudi Arabia will be discussed in this paper.