GENDER ROLES IN SAUDI ARABIAN SOCIETY AND POLITICS
GENDER ROLES IN SAUDI ARABIAN SOCIETY AND POLITICS

Summary/Abstract: THIS ARTICLE TRIES TO UNDERSCORE THE IMPORTANT ROLE THAT GENDER EQUALITY ORINEQUALITY HAS IN SHAPING SOCIAL ORDER, INTERNAL AFFAIRS, FOREIGN POLICY ANDECONOMICS. IT DOES THIS BY STUDYING HOW GENDER EQUALITY IS PERCEIVED AND APPLIED INSAUDI ARABIA – A KEY MIDDLE EAST ACTOR AND A MUSLIM STATE. WE WILL SEE HOW GENDER GAPIS OFTEN DEFINED BY A SET OF FACTORS SUCH AS RELIGION, ECONOMICS, HISTORIC CONTEXT OREVEN FOREIGN POLICY. IN SOME CASES, GENDER INEQUALITY IS FORMALIZED BY LAW, AS IS THECASE OF SAUDI ARABIA. BASED ON STATISTICS AND EXAMPLES WE WILL SHOW THEPROPORTIONATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENDER EQUALITY AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE,ECONOMIC GROWTH OR SOCIAL ORDER AND HOW THE SOCIAL FABRIC AND PERFORMANCE OF ASTATE IS INFLUENCED BY HOW IT TREATS ITS FEMALE POPULATION. SAUDI ARABIA HAS ITS SHAREOF WOMEN ACTIVISTS, NOTABLY MANAL AL-SHARIF, THAT MAKE A STRONG ARGUMENT FORGENDER EQUALITY.

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