.... I wonder what will happen as the women's driving campaign continues and more Saudi women get behind the wheel. Will the government ignore us until we become a common sight and society gets accustomed to the idea? Will there be a crackdown, with the women who drove arrested and imprisoned? Will the government implement a system that gradually allows women on Saudi roads?
Your guess is as good as mine. All I know as a Saudi woman is that the current situation of gender discrimination against who can and cannot drive their own cars is unsustainable economically, socially and legally.
[COMMENT] There is something deeply disturbing about a society organised around the premise that women are chattels, who cannot be trusted to indulge in social contact with a male without having sex. [Guardian Cif] Read more
