Education, Skills and Learning

The Middle East's biggest ride-hailing firm is hiring women drivers in Saudi Arabia

A Saudi woman is photographed as she checks a car at a showroom in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia October 5, 2017. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser     TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1801BA7260

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A note placed by an unknown person on female driver Azza Al Shmasani's car, is pictured in Saudi Arabia June 22, 2011. Saudi Arabia has no formal ban on women driving. But as citizens must use only Saudi-issued licences in the country, and as these are issued only to men, women drivers are anathema. An outcry at the segregation, which contributes to the general cloistering of Saudi women, has been fuelled by social media interest in two would-be female motorists arrested in May.  REUTERS/Fahad Shadeed   (SAUDI ARABIA - Tags: TRANSPORT SOCIETY) - GM1E76N02DR01
A note placed on a female driver's car Image: REUTERS/Fahad Shadeed
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