Saudi Arabia Research Paper
In America, women do not rely on male authority in order to live their lives. Women can freely attend to their daily lives without needing a man watching over. They are free to drive down to the supermarket and buy groceries. They can vote. Women come and go from their homes whenever they please. In America, women are seen as equals, not as inferiors. However, in Saudi Arabia, that is not the case. Women in Saudi Arabia are prohibited from doing certain things, especially without a male chaperone. They are seen as inferiors, who need constant supervision from a male. For example, some things that women cannot do include, “going anywhere without a chaperone, driving a car, wear clothes or makeup that show off their beauty, interact with men,
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An anonymous author, due to privacy reasons, wrote Chronology: Saudi Arabia, an article that described the events that unfolded after women were detained because of driving. It specifically described how because of one woman’s youtube video that was uploaded, 12,000 members were attracted to it and therefore caused more chaos. The woman was detained, and later released after international and local rights groups condemned of her arrest. This would only be the beginning of women’s protests that were to take place in Saudi Arabia.
As a result of this, on October 26, Saudi women decided to stand up, and protest their rights again by driving on the streets and posting pictures of it on social media. They created the Women’s Driving Campaign and promoted it all over youtube. Due to the attention that this campaign received, October 26 became known as the Civil Disobedience Day (Mohammed Jamjoom and Laura Smith-Spark)
(http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/26/world/meast/saudi-arabia-women-drivers/). By the end of the day, authorities had stopped five women that they spotted. Instead of the police dealing with the women directly, they waited until their male guardians arrived, at which point the women were released to them, and signed a pledge that forbid them from driving ever again.
An anonymous author, due to privacy reasons, wrote Chronology: Saudi Arabia, an article that described the events that unfolded after women were detained because of driving. It specifically described how because of one woman’s youtube video that was uploaded, 12,000 members were attracted to it and therefore caused more chaos. The woman was detained, and later released after international and local rights groups condemned of her arrest. This would only be the beginning of women’s protests that were to take place in Saudi Arabia.
As a result of this, on October 26, Saudi women decided to stand up, and protest their rights again by driving on the streets and posting pictures of it on social media. They created the Women’s Driving Campaign and promoted it all over youtube. Due to the attention that this campaign received, October 26 became known as the Civil Disobedience Day (Mohammed Jamjoom and Laura Smith-Spark)
(http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/26/world/meast/saudi-arabia-women-drivers/). By the end of the day, authorities had stopped five women that they spotted. Instead of the police dealing with the women directly, they waited until their male guardians arrived, at which point the women were released to them, and signed a pledge that forbid them from driving ever again.