Is it true that women are not aloud to drive a car in Saudi Arabia?

why is that?

missd
thankes for the spelling correction

Saudi women face severe discrimination in many aspects of their lives, including education, employment, and the justice system and are clearly regarded as inferior to men. Although they make up 70% of those enrolled in universities, women make up just 5% of the workforce in Saudi Arabia, the lowest proportion in the world. Implementation of a government resolution supporting expanded employment opportunities for women met resistance from within the labor ministry, from the religious police, and from the male citizenry. These institutions and individuals generally claim that according to Sharia a woman's place is in the home caring for her husband and family.

In the legal system, women face discrimination as the criminal laws of Saudi Arabia adhere to strict Islamic precepts. An example of this is the requirements for testifying in criminal proceedings; the witness must be deemed sane, the age of an adult, and a Muslim. Non-Muslims may not testify in criminal court. Women may not testify unless it is a personal matter that did not occur in the sight of men. The testimony of a woman is not regarded as fact but as presumption. The reasons women are forbidden to testify in criminal proceedings are:

1. Women are much more emotional than men and will, as a result of their emotions, distort their testimony.

2. Women do not participate in public life, so they will not be capable of understanding what they observe.

3. Women are dominated completely by men, who by the grace of God are deemed superior; therefore, women will give testimony according to what the last man told them.

4. Women are forgetful, and their testimony cannot be considered reliable.

As a result of these laws women are particularly vulnerable in cases of assault and/or rape, as their testimony is treated as a presumption, while that of their attackers is accepted as fact. These reasons are regarded as totally sexist by western civilization as well as going against all science and even common sense.

Women are not allowed to drive or ride bicycles on public roads in large cities. However, most women are capable of driving, and some do so on rural roads illegally. Women are allowed to fly aircraft, though they must be chauffeured to the airport. Education, although limited, has become an important aspect. Religious police (Mutaween (Arabic: 賲胤賵毓賷賳)) enforce a modest code of dress; foreign women are also expected to wear abaya, violators may face caning, harassment or fines. There are numerous legal restrictions of what kind of jobs women can do (as to prevent their direct contact with men). Progressively over the decades, many foreigners residing in the Kingdom have reported that enforcement of dress code laws has become slightly less strict. Institutions from schools to ministries to restaurants are always sex-segregated. Women cannot be admitted to a hospital, examined by a doctor, travel abroad or leave the house without the express permission and/or company of an immediate male relative. After their first menstrual cycle, women must cover their entire body in a long black cloak (abaya) as according to tradition. Failing to do so results in severe punishment.

That would be too noisy.

yes, that is true currently. but there are plans that women will drive in the future.

n Saudi Arabia, women are not allowed to drive a car or travel without a male chaperone. Islamic law requires them to wear a garment called an abaya that shrouds them from head to toe.

Allowed should have been the spelling that you wanted.
Aloud - to read out loud.

I heard that to. I do know though that women in saudi arabia do drive in rural areas that is to say out of the big city centers.

It is true. And it really is a shame that doesn't also happen here in the USA . . . cell phones in both ears, doughnuts in the mouth, eye makeup, blow dryers plugged into the lighter, cigarettes, some stupid little white barking dog sitting in their lap, a brush in their hair, Madonna on the CD, One Life To LIve or General Hospital on the DVD/TV . . .

Yup, it's true.
Because the police will apprehend any woman who drive.

Yes it is true.
"Religous鈥?reasons!!

Yes it is damn true. I hate that. The Saudi Arabians are ignorants and they blame their ignorance on their religion. Stupid culture.

mahawi61: No it is not religious reasons it is ignorance Islam never said that.
Great answer , Duke of Tudor.

yes, it is Allah punishment for people of Arabia and carried by the House of Saud.

Yes it's true.

Although there are plans to allow them to drive, the main reason for not allowing women to drive in Saudi Arabia is because of webbed cultural values that people refuse to give up even though they (culture) do not come to parallel with today's world.

Next week the King of Saudi Arabia will receive a petition to allow women to drive. Everyone...PRAY!

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http://www.arabnews.com/?page=9&section=...

This has all the information!!

Go back to school you moron !!Learn how to spell.