Will women take the wheel?

• Position: SAUDI ARABIA - Saudi women's driving rights - Brief article

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Saudi women may now travel. abroad without a mate companion [though mate permission is still, required], seek a divorce, and own their own companies, but they're still forbidden to drive. A group of women has petitioned King Abdullah to repeal the ban. The Saudi government, which was hostile toward the last such petition in 1990, now seems mildly receptive. "You get the feeling they are preparing the population for this issue," says an organizer of the women's group...