Women and Elections: Let Us Wait for the Next Phase

Women and Elections: Let Us Wait for the Next Phase: "Anthropological studies show that the male domination is a major feature of the tribes and clans functioning on a patriarchal pattern such as the Saudi society. However, their travels to the Western countries for higher studies and other purposes following the oil boom in the seventies enabled the Saudi men to have a first hand knowledge of the modernization in those countries including the role of women in social and political life. The influence of the Western-educated people helped the country progress but without ignoring the tribal respect and regard for women�s status. Paradoxically, some other Saudis who also studied in Western universities were terrified of the consequences of loosening the restrictions on women."