In Saudi Arabia, you may recall, women are not allowed to work as cashiers in supermarkets and the like, because they will then be interacting with unrelated men.
As this applies even to lingerie shops, Saudi women find themselves in the unfortunate position of having to discuss the fine points of their most intimate apparel with unrelated men. Worse, these men are more often than not foreign.
Back in 2005 the Ministry of Labour, made aware of the problem, ordered lingerie shops to employ women only. Nothing much happened. Leading clerics, sniffing heresy, issued a fatwa which confirmed that cashier jobs for women were absolutely not permissible. [Mick Hartley] Read more
