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Source: BI-ME and agencies , Author: BI-ME staff
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 12:00 am
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SAUDI ARABIA. Saudi Crown Prince Sultan yesterday announced plans to allocate one third of government jobs to Saudi women and to create additional job opportunities for women reported the Arab News newspaper. “The government depends on women for one third of its jobs,” the Prince said. Prince Sultan underscored the government’s efforts to provide advanced education to Saudi women.

“Saudi leaders have given women the right to education and employment within the Kingdom’s basic principles,” Prince Sultan explained.

The government has established hundreds of schools and colleges for girls in different parts of the Kingdom. Last year a women’s university was established in Riyadh. Women graduates currently outnumber their male counterparts, constituting 56.5% of the total.

Women’s employment has previously been limited primarily to education and health. A cabinet decision issued some three years ago expanded job opportunities for women.

Prince Sultan also spoke about the Kingdom’s requirement of skilled and experienced foreign labour to carry out various development projects and run new companies and industries. However, he pointed out that the employment of foreign labor would not be at the expense of Saudis. There are over eight million expatriates in the Kingdom and the majority of them work in the private sector.

He said the Kingdom’s universities and institutes of higher learning would focus on science and technology in the coming years in order to meet job market requirements. Efforts are under way to establish a university of science and technology (named after King Abdullah) North of Jeddah.

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