ちょっと時間が経ってしまいましたがサウジアラビアについて。New York Timesの動画を見ると女性たちが運転する権利を取得するまでは長い道のりだったことがわかります。
I Can’t Wait to Drive in SaudiArabia Again
By MANAL AL-SHARIF SEPT. 27, 2017
This
is why for the women of Saudi Arabia, Sept. 26, 2017, the day the monarchy
announced that it plans to overturn the driving ban, will be remembered as our
Emancipation Day. It is every bit as monumental for us as Aug. 18, 1920, was
for American women, the date the 19th Amendment giving them the right to vote
was ratified.
A Saudi Woman Who Got Behind theWheel and Never Looked Back
The Saturday Profile
By SOMINI SENGUPTA JUNE 16, 2017
And then, in 2011, came a wave of
pro-democracy protests across the Arab world. Ms. al-Sharif was back in Saudi
Arabia by then, living in the Aramco compound, a divorced single mother to her
son, Abdalla.
She had bought a car. She was allowed to drive inside the Aramco compound.
アラムコの居住区の動画がYoutubeにありましたが我々が想像するサウジアラビアとは別世界が広がっていました。
彼女の本を読むとどうやらAramcoはもともとアメリカの会社でサウジアラビアに国有化される際に女性も同じように雇用するこという条件を入れたそうです。
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