Dr. Abu Talib: The Royal Decree came to complete the process of empowering Saudi women - Saudi News | Okaz Newspaper https://www.okaz.com.sa/article/1575880 I promised a member of the Shura Council, a professor of surgery and medicine in the treatment of infertility, IVF, gynecological and obstetric diseases, Dr. Zainab Abu Talib, the noble royal decree issued by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz The House of Saud - may God preserve him - by adopting the implementation of the provisions of the traffic system and its executive regulations, including the issuance of driving licenses for males and females alike, and allowing women to drive a vehicle as it is a wise approach and decision to empower women, and their participation in social, economic and political life, and allows them to carry out their needs, their home, their children and the needs Between her gender, and this high order may be a gateway to the work of women in the service of women.

She said, "Since the establishment of this great entity, the Kingdom''s government and its leaders have taken the lead in empowering women in all walks and activities of life according to Sharia controls, and the decision contains many axes, including, for example: the adoption of implementing the provisions of the traffic system and its executive regulations - and issuing driving licenses for males." And the determination of the time for the enforcement of the supreme order starting from the next 10 Shawwal 1439 AH, and the requirement that the implementation be in accordance with the approved legal and regulatory controls, the justifications for this decision and the negative consequences of not allowing women to drive the vehicle, and the positives envisaged for allowing them to do so. The leading scholars regarding women driving a vehicle, in that the Islamic ruling on this is based on permissibility.

Abu Talib indicated that the supreme order reflects the comprehensive development renaissance witnessed by our dear country, from which Saudi women have gained their share like their male brother in various fields, as Saudi women have assumed many leadership positions in education, health, law and the rest of the jobs and made many local and global achievements, explaining that when looking at To Saudi women in the Basic Law of Governance in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, we will find that it states in its eighth article that governance is based on justice, consultation and equality in accordance with Islamic Sharia, and the policy of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques dealt with women''s issues as a citizen with full rights and duties, and the work of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques The two honorable people, provided that the Saudi woman is fully competent in accordance with the Sharia regulations.

Dr. Zainab continued that the empowerment of Saudi women has many aspects, such as: appointing 30 Saudi women from the elite of Saudi women in the field of science, knowledge, and human services in the Shura Council to achieve a balance in studying laws and regulations in a way that achieves welfare, justice and equality for Saudi women, and effective participation in the national dialogue and training workshops. And spreading the culture of dialogue, departments for women in the military corps have been d, such as passports, prisons, airports, civil defense, drug control and many others. Feminizing educational leadership positions according to the organizational structure of the Ministry of Education. The military and diplomatic corps, and work in Saudi embassies in a number of capitals, the participation of Saudi women in most official delegations to represent the Kingdom in international forums, the appointment of a number of women in leadership positions with the rank of deputy minister, excellent rank and fifteenth, undersecretary and assistant secretary of a city for information technology, accepting a lot Of the women in an external scholarship program, women participated in the elections for members of administrative boards In the chambers of commerce, organizing the work of women in the shops of selling women''s necessities, allocating women''s sections in every government agency to employ women and reviewing their transactions, by establishing courts that deal with

Issues of domestic violence.

She concluded by saying: This is a flood of efforts by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in empowering Saudi women in all fields, and this sublime order will close a file in which Western media has been pouring poison into honey, and sent a strong message that Islam affirms the preservation and maintenance of women''s rights.