A Society of Young Women

Renard, Amélie Le

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“…The cultural context of employment for women in the KSA is complex and rapidly changing. Le-Renard (2014) notes that there are two primary but somewhat conflicting discourses that pervade Saudi society and influence employment. The first is gender-based segregation, which is promoted as a central element of the Saudi identity as Islamic.…”

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“…Culturally, education and employment of women are permitted if it is consistent with their “female nature” and domestic obligations and if strict segregation of the sexes is maintained (Hamdan, 2005). On the other hand, Le-Renard (2014) argues that in this era, young Saudi’s are urged to acquire an education to build careers in the private sector, and thus participate in the country’s national development, a policy called Saudization. Saudi women are not excluded from this discourse, and everyone is encouraged to participate in education and the job market to contribute to the nationalization of jobs, especially professional jobs, replacing non-Saudis with Saudi citizens for the sake of national prosperity (Ministry of Higher Education, KSA, 2010).…”

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Reassessing cultural capital: access to employment for women with disabilities in Saudi Arabia

Peter

Alem

Knabe

2018

EDI

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to give voice to the experiences of women with disabilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) who have accessed employment, to highlight the structural barriers to employment and to identify the skills they used to obtain work. Design/methodology/approach This is a phenomenological study conducted in KSA. Themes from the interviews of women with disabilities were explored using Yosso’s (2005) cultural capital conceptual framework. Findings The participants had work and career aspirations, persisted in their job search, navigated barriers, and had familial support and emotional support from their social networks, but lacked instrumental assistance in accessing work. KSA policies to support women and people with disabilities to obtain employment are not adequately enforced, and negative attitudes toward people with disabilities are widespread. Research limitations/implications The sample size is small, but these preliminary findings justify the necessity for additional research and policy development specifically focused on women with disabilities. Practical implications There is an urgent need for existing policy enforcement and a need for a national strategy promoting the employment of women and the needs of women with disabilities should be specifically included in this agenda. Originality/value There is no extant research or policy literature regarding employment and women with disabilities in the KSA. This study applies Yosso’s (2005) theory of cultural capital to women with disabilities, demonstrating its applicability outside of race/ethnicity studies and suggests that “community” is not an essential factor in building employment success.

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Reassessing cultural capital: access to employment for women with disabilities in Saudi Arabia

Peter

Alem

Knabe

2018

EDI

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“…For example, "Young Saudi women are veiled, but the veil, supposedly serving to hide the body according to official religious texts, is diverted: the shoulder abaya, fluid, embroidered, sometimes decorated with sequins, becomes a seductive fashion accessory." 29 While these transgressions seem simple, they create widespread change over time. Young women note at their universities that, "their repeated occurrence in public, in the faces of the authorities, engenders a disordering of the latter's rule."…”

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“…Saudi Women are now undertaking their own reading of religious texts and putting "together their own classifications of religious precepts, distinguishing between those they esteem necessary and those they esteem optional." 32 They do not question Islam nor Saudi culture, but they do question readings thereof. There are many Saudi women who are proud of their Muslim roots, traditional family culture.…”

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Is There Feminism in Saudi Arabia?

Hoza

2019

UFJUR

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The use of the word feminism might be problematic in trying to describe women’s movement in Saudi Arabia because of historical and social factors associated with the feminist movement. Feminism is a movement that developed out of Western context and discourse, therefore it might not properly describe what is taking place in Saudi Arabia. A comparison between women’s movements in Saudi Arabia and the Western feminist movement reveals important differences. This, however, does not mean that Saudis are not preoccupied by the theme of justice as it pertains to gender issues. The aim of this research is thus to challenge the view that Saudi women have no agency and to explore the ways they seek to shape their society and challenge oppressive systems from within their own culture and worldview. This research will discuss why feminist theory may not be the ideal, and certainly not the only system that can address oppressive systems in non-Western societies, including Saudi Arabia. Additionally, this research will describe and analyze the ways in which Saudi women are working towards defining their own views of equity and creating women's movement within their society.

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Saudi Young Women #Activism: The Online Discourse Against the Male Guardianship System

Khalid

2024

CyberOrient

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In Saudi Arabia, it is illegal for women to constitute political parties, form civil society organizations, or participate in political demonstrations. Nonetheless, Saudi Arabia young women have had the chance to take advantage of social media's ability to bring sociopolitical change, to freely express themselves, fight for their rights, voice their opinions, and draw attention to and confront the country's oppressive political and social conditions for women, particularly the male guardianship system. The #EndMaleGuardianshipSystem Twitter campaign, which started in 2016, has received the most attention out of all the women's online campaigns in Saudi Arabia. Twitter's ability to organize, record, and publicize content has given young Saudi women the confidence to voice their social and political ideas and demands and to campaign against this system. This article assesses the communication tactics and online discourse used by Saudi young women in their hashtag activism against the male guardianship system while addressing the question: What kind of online discourse was produced and shared against the male guardianship system? For this purpose, an online observation was conducted for the (سعوديات نطالب باسقاط الولاية# [#EndMaleGuardianshipSystem]), where three thousand tweets were collected and analyzed using the qualitative content analysis method. The research led to the identification of three communication strategies that were used by Saudi women: (1) political soft and assertive communication strategy; (2) religious medium and persuasive communication strategy; and (3) social hard and educative communication strategy.

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A Society of Young Women

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Reassessing cultural capital: access to employment for women with disabilities in Saudi Arabia

Reassessing cultural capital: access to employment for women with disabilities in Saudi Arabia

Is There Feminism in Saudi Arabia?

Saudi Young Women #Activism: The Online Discourse Against the Male Guardianship System

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