Women's rights in Saudi Arabia  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

"The fact that in 2017 Saudi Arabia was elected to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women despite its conflict with women's rights, earned the United Nations much criticism." --Sholem Stein

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop

Featured:

During the late 20th and early 21st centuries, women's rights in Saudi Arabia were limited in comparison to the rights of women in many of its neighboring countries due to the strict interpretation of sharia law in place in Saudi Arabia. The World Economic Forum's 2016 Global Gender Gap Report ranked Saudi Arabia 141 out of 144 countries for gender parity, down from 134 out of 145 in 2015. The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) elected Saudi Arabia to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women for 2018–2022.

[edit]

See also


Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Women's rights in Saudi Arabia" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Retrieved from "http://artandpopularculture.com/Women%27s_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia"
Personal tools
Metas