Thanks for the courtesy of your acknowledgement/feedback

Dorian

Thank you for an interesting article on women in Saudi Arabia.

I worked and lived in Saudi Arabia for about five years in the late 70s, early 80s, and cann appreciate the change that is apparently taking place with respect to women there.

As a recent article on this very same subject in TIME says, it appears that “women are steadily winning rights and greater freedom.” Good for them.

I was, however, truly astounded to read both in your post and in the quoted “Let rural women drive, as they always have in past,” how—apparently—freely women can (and in the past have been able to) drive in Saudi Arabia. I am not doubting the story, but in our entire five-years residence in Saudi Arabia, we never saw a woman drive on the streets of Jeddah or Riyadh or on its highways. We did see, and hear of women, “joy riding” in the desert, in remote rural areas, or on their husbands' estates, but never publicly.

I do not doubt your friend correspondent, I am just very surprised to learn about it. Even TIME in its article says “Saudi women still can't drive.”

But if they can, even big water tankers, the more power to them

Thanks for your article.