Opportunity Arabia 11 Thursday 2nd October 2014 Lina Khashogji PhD Candidate and Managing Director, koko-digital media KSA

1. WHAT DOES IT
MEAN TO BE AN
EDUCATED SAUDI
FEMALE ?

2. • Is it true that women can’t drive in your country?

3. • Can you walk like that in Saudi?

4. • SO ARE YOU STILL GOING BACK ?

6. • Religious establishments and State Policy

7. • 60% of university students in Saudi Arabia are Saudi females.
• In Saudi Arabia, women in the labor force are mainly in the education sector.
• There are thousands of female professors throughout Saudi Arabia
• 85% of employed Saudi women work in education, 6% in public health,

8. • Religious establishments

9. • Their perception towards women
development

12. • First school for Girls / 1957

13. During the Age of King
Abdullah

14. 1. Expanding Higher Education for Women

15. 1. Expanding Higher Education for Women

16. 1. Expanding Higher Education for Women

17. 1. Expanding Higher Education for Women
Scholarship To study Abroad

18. 1. Expanding Higher Education for Women

19. 2. Control in women education
The first woman to hold a cabinet-level office in Saudi Arabia.

20. 3. MEDIA, SPORT, POLITICS

21. 2. MEDIA, SPORT, POLITICS

22. 2. MEDIA, SPORT, POLITICS

23. The Answer
Challenges : Social Traditions towards
women
Opportunities: State Policy towards women
STRONG, DETERMINED, ACHIEVER.