Woman Drives 120 km in Saudi Arabia for the first time... way to goooo

This is a perfect example of why women should be allowed to, at the very least, have a driving licence.  If a woman has children and her husband works she is quite often left without transport, at home.  Even on Compounds and very recently I had a situation where a young married couple were both incapacitated with that very bad sickness and diahorea virus and they had a 6 month old baby.  We tried calling an Ambulance, but for some bizzare reason they will not come on Compounds and in the end people had to be woken up to take them to the hospital in the early hours of the morning.  It worries me that women/children may be fatally compromised as a result of this law.  What the article does not say is whether they decided to prosecute the woman for her blatant breach of Saudi law?  A good post Shahab

They'r go!

gowiththeflowUK wrote:

This is a perfect example of why women should be allowed to, at the very least, have a driving licence.  If a woman has children and her husband works she is quite often left without transport, at home.  Even on Compounds and very recently I had a situation where a young married couple were both incapacitated with that very bad sickness and diahorea virus and they had a 6 month old baby.  We tried calling an Ambulance, but for some bizzare reason they will not come on Compounds and in the end people had to be woken up to take them to the hospital in the early hours of the morning.  It worries me that women/children may be fatally compromised as a result of this law.  What the article does not say is whether they decided to prosecute the woman for her blatant breach of Saudi law?  A good post Shahab

Or whether the husband beat the woman after he recovered.

On a similar topic, took the family to a Nissan dealership and my wife jumped in the drivers seat of a Patrol to have a look, I got in the passenger side and when we looked out there was a look of shock and horror on the men's faces in the showroom that a woman would get behind the steering wheel. Good times

i can see it coming ... emancipation of women in KSA