Saudi Women Driving Ban Ended

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  Airline Seeks Saudi Women Pilots, Flight Attendants. Nearly 1,000 Apply

  In June, Saudi Arabia ended a long-standing ban on women driving cars as Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman seeks to improve women's participation in the workforce.

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  After Driving Ban Ends, Saudi Women Taste Thrill Of Speed

  Speed-crazed women drivers are bound to turn heads in the deeply conservative desert kingdom, which overturned the world's only ban on female motorists in June as part of a much-hyped liberalisation drive led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

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  After Driving Ban Ends, Saudi Women Now Head To Race Tracks

  Donning a helmet inside a pearl silver sports sedan, Rana Almimoni skids and drifts around a Riyadh park, engine roaring, tyres screeching and clouds of dust billowing from the back.

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  Viral: As Saudi Women Got Behind The Wheel, Cops Welcomed Them With Roses

  Among those who cheered the end of ban on women drivers were some Saudi police officers who handed out roses to the new drivers. Images of the uniformed officers handing out flowers to women drivers began circulating on social media shortly after the ban was lifted.

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  "Magical": A Saudi Arabian Woman Drives A Formula One Car As Ban Ends

  From the streets of Saudi Arabia to a French track, women are taking the wheel.

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  Saudi Arabian Woman Marks End Of Driving Ban By Getting Behind The Wheel Of Formula One Car

  Al-Hamad drove a 2012 car, in which Kimi Raikkonen won that year's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, as part of a parade of the French manufacturer's cars to mark the return of the race after a 10-year absence.

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  "Feel Like A Bird": Saudi Arabia Woman Shares First Drive Experience

  Saudi Arabia ended its longstanding ban on women driving on Sunday -- and the second the clock struck midnight, women across the country started their engines.

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  As Saudi Ends Ban, Riyadh Erupts In Midnight Cheers For A Woman In A Car

  Every few metres someone -- a newlywed couple, a group of young girls with balloons -- stops Samar Almogren to cheer her on or flash her a thumbs-up.

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  "We No Longer Need A Man": Saudi Women Driving Ban Ends

  Saudi Arabia allowed women to drive from Sunday, overturning the world's only ban on female motorists, a historic reform that is expected to usher in a new era of social mobility.

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  Saudi Women Gear Up For New Freedom As Driving Ban Ends Tomorrow

  Women will hit the roads in Saudi Arabia on Sunday with the lifting of the world's last ban on female drivers, long seen as an emblem of women's repression in the conservative kingdom.

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  End Of Driving Ban Will Boost Women's Economic Role In Saudi Arabia

  The end of a decades-old female driving ban is expected to bring an economic windfall for millions of Saudi women, making it easier for them to work and do business.

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  Two More Women Activists Arrested In Saudi Arabia

  Saudi Arabia has arrested two more women's rights activists, in an "unrelenting crackdown" just days before the kingdom ends a decades-long ban on female motorists, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.

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  Saudi Women Rev Up Motorbikes As End To Driving Ban Nears

  Overturning the world's only ban on female drivers, long a symbol of repression against women, is the most striking reform yet launched by powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

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  Saudi Women Rev Up Motorbikes As End To Driving Ban Nears

  Many women fear they are still easy prey for conservatives in a nation where male "guardians" -- their fathers, husbands or other relatives -- can exercise arbitrary authority to make decisions on their behalf. "Expect more accidents" because of women is a common refrain in an avalanche of sexist comments on Twitter.

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  Saudi Arabia Frees 4 Women's Rights Activists, Associates Say

  Saudi Arabia has released four women's rights activists who were among a group arrested last week, a month before a ban on women driving is set to end, fellow activists and Amnesty International said on Thursday.