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Just look at this progress.
- In 1955, Queen Iffat initiated the first private school for girls in Jeddah.[28]
- In 1960, King Saud issued a royal decree that made public schools for girls accessible all around the country.[29]
- In 1970, the first higher education institution for women was founded.[30]
- In 1999, Saudi Arabia agreed to issue women national ID cards.[31]
- In 2005, Saudi Arabia banned forced marriages.[32]
- In 2009, the first Saudi female minister was appointed in the Cabinet.[33]
- In 2011, King Abdullah allowed women to vote for the first time in the 2015 local elections and be appointed to the Consultative Assembly, the national legislature.[34]
- In 2012, Saudi women joined the Summer Olympics for the first time.[35]
- In 2013, Saudi Arabia allowed women to ride motorbikes and bicycles in recreational areas.[36]
- Since 2013, the Consultative Assembly has required that women hold at least 20% of seats,[37] which exceeded the representation of women in the United States Congress at one point.[38][39]
- In February 2017, Saudi Arabia appointed the first woman to chair the Saudi Arabian stock exchange, the largest stock market in the Middle East.[40]
- In May 2017, King Salman ordered that women be allowed access to government services, such as education and healthcare, without needing consent from a male guardian.[41]
- In September 2017, King Salman issued a decree allowing women to drive, lifting the decades-old ban on female drivers.[42]
- In October 2017, women were allowed into sport stadiums.[43]
- In 2018, public statements by crown prince Mohammed bin Salman and legislation restricting the powers of the religious police led many Saudi women to abandon wearing the hijab in public.[44][45]
- In November 2018, Saudi Arabia issued a resolution that prohibits wage discrimination of women who perform work similar to their male counterparts in the private sector.[46]
- In January 2019, the Saudi Supreme Court issued a law requiring courts to notify women of divorce via text,[47] as guardian laws have allowed men to divorce their wives without notice. The previous policy of divorce without any notice created confusion and left many women homeless.
- As of August 1, 2019, women have the right to register for divorce and marriage, apply for passports and other official documents, and travel abroad without their guardian's permission.[48][49] The laws also extend employment-discrimination protections to women, allow them to register as co-head of a household, live independently from their husband, and to become eligible for the guardianship of minors.[50][51]
- In October 2019, the Saudi Ministry of Defense stated that women can join senior ranks in the military.[52]
- In December 2019, Saudi Arabia issued a ban on marriages for people under the age of 18 for both sexes.[53][54]
- In August 2020, the Saudi Cabinet approved an amendment that deletes the articles which prohibited women from working at night and working in hazardous jobs and industries.[55][46]
- In January 2021, women can now change their personal data, such as their family name, name of children, and their marital status, without the need for a guardian’s permission.[56]
- In June 2021, Saudi Arabia allowed single, divorced, or widowed women to live independently in a house without permission from their male guardian.[57][58]
- In July 2021, the Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah allowed women to register to perform the Hajj without being accompanied by a mahram.[59]
- In March 2022, Muslim women over the age of 45 were allowed to perform the Umrah without a male guardian.[60] Shortly after, a new decision was announced allowing Muslim women under 45 years old to travel without a male guardian to perform both the Hajj and Umrah rites.[61][62]
- In July 2022, the first woman Deputy Secretary-General of the Saudi Cabinet was appointed.[63]
- In September 2022, Saudi Arabia appointed the first woman as head of the Saudi Human Rights Commission.[64]
- In 22 September 2022, Saudi Arabia announced sending the first woman to space in early 2023 as part of the Saudi Space Commission’s new space program.[65][66]
- In 5 January 2023, FIFA appointed the first Saudi woman international referee.[67][68]
- In 11 January 2023, King Salman approved an amendment of the Saudi nationality law that will allow Saudi women, married to foreign men, to pass on Saudi citizenship to their children, in a major change to the kingdom’s citizenship laws that has been debated since 2016.[69][70]
