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In this article, by BBC, eight young Saudi women speak out on their lives and hopes for the future. These women attend a private college in Saudi Arabia. Their perspectives all range from extremely hopeful to do what men can to just being happy to be a good mother and wife.

This article discusses issues with the women's inequality in Saudi Arabia. One issue it discusses that I did not take into consideration yet is the domestic abuse women face by their fathers and husbands. This article takes a slightly deeper look into the way the laws against women's rights affect them.

This article discusses the way women feel about the laws that pertain to them in Saudi Arabia. Looking at the oppressive laws on women in Saudi Arabia, an outsider would think that all women would hope for a change and for equality. However, there are many women that feel that the laws allow them to live a life of privilege without having to worry about driving or working. I never even considered this perspective.

This article basically states that since the US's withdrawal from Middle Eastern affairs, regional actors were left to fight over who will lead the region's future. The fight is baiscally a run off between Turkey, Qatar, Saudi, and the UAE, each country doing their part intervening in conflicts aiding their supported side. Rather than achieving goals, these proxy wars have fueled the violence, chaos, and polarization deepening the problems they originally sought to mend. While the US has succeeded in abstaining from Mid East affairs, the question now is whether or not they should continue this resignation or step in to urge for order and peace. 

This article is in Arabic and I picked it from a Saudi newspaper called Sabq, the article defies what a western newspaper has published about easing the ban on woman driving in Saudi.

Saudi Arabia former leader, King Abdullah, who passed away recently, seemed to be pushing for a slow reform in women's rights. While in power, many small but worthy advances were made for Saudi women. One of the most notable of these advances would be the role of women in the work force growing exponentially.

Diversifying the private sector In an economy where oil generates 90% of all government income is no easy task. This article touches on the future of Saudi Arabia and its potential economic and unemployment risks if the country does not seek new ways of generating revenue and creating non-oil related jobs.

This article focuses on the economic weakness that Saudi Arabia faces with its current and future workforce. Mainly focusing on the youth and future workforce of the country. "If you talk to young people now, most of them want to be entrepreneurs." Said Muhammad al-Jasser at the opening ceremony of the Euromoney Conference in Riyadh

Women2Drive is a group related to a national campaign trying to bring awareness and make a change in the laws in Saudi Arabia forbidding women to drive. They hope that by spreading social awareness they will make a change. Women2Drive encourages Saudi women to post pictures of themselves behind the wheel to help advocate.

Here is a great clips that the Saudi Princess summarize the Women issues in Saudi Arabia. She has delivered the major topics in efficient positive way. Princess Amerah highlighted the areas of growth in Saudi women rights in unique and intelligent way

In this article, Michelles Obama's fashion choices in Saudi Arabia are discussed. Although it is customary and even against the rules for women to show too much skin, Michelle Obama wore a blue flowing shirt with a jacket on top. She is also choosing not to cover her face and hair. This was a direct fashion political statement made by the first lady.

This article focuses mainly on statistics and what is common following King Abdullah reign in regards to women's rights. One point the article makes is the inability for women, even educated women, in Saudi Arabia to find jobs. Of the jobs women do possess a very small percentage is held in political careers.

Divorce in Saudi Arabia differs for men and women. Men can easily obtain a divorce while women struggle to divorce their husbands. Even in cases of abuse courts tend to side with the man feeling that the wife likely provoked the actions.

Human rights campaigners welcomed a landmark decision in Saudi Arabia to ban domestic violence. However, they urge caution. The law is a big step but there are many issues not being take into consideration. For example, the issues of rape within marriage. Further, how are women in particular supposed to report when they are abused if they have to go through their guardian for their every actions.

Domestic violence is high in Saudi Arabia. Many cases go unreported for many reasons such as fear of the attacker and lack of punishment. If not much will be done to stop the attack then why report it. Abuse by guardians has become part of a societal norm as well making it difficult for the abused to come forward.

The following link is a link to a twitter post by @Saudiwoman. The link shows an image of a female news anchor in Saudi Arabia. The poster states "I've never seen a woman news anchor (and without a headscarf!) on the Saudi National TV channel before!"

The Saudi government is more interested in keeping market share rather than cutting production to increase prices.

This article was extremely interesting. It discussed the potential for an all women city in Saudi Arabia. The city would be an area for single women to work to and learn new skills allowing them some independence. The idea of an all women city is baffling to me, it seems the country is moving even further back in time with gender advances.

This article talks about the strategical approaches from Oil leaders including Saudi Arabia to maintain control of their market share, and how they use their oil as a "Weapon" in the sense that their decisions financially affect other countries greatly.

This article highlights on the effects of price from recent conflict between Yemen and Saudi Arabia.