Saudi Marriage Contracts Include Work-Rights Clauses
“We want to prove we can be like other women in the world"
- Increasingly, young couples are signing marriage contracts that expressly authorize the wife to pursue an education and then work outside the home, a significant change from usual policy.
- Because of tradition, the 2007 World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report ranked Saudi Arabia dead last out of 128 countries in terms of female participation in the labour force
- Reason No. 1 for the change: the ambitions of young Saudi women, with one saying, “Saudi girls now have different dreams than before … Each girl has an aim she wants to reach”
- Reason No. 2: education, with about 70 per cent of university students being female and more and more subjects being opened up to them
- Reason No. 3: economics, with the cost of living having shot up especially fast in the past two years, increasing the appeal or need for a second income
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