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🗓️ 8 June 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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This week, the Saudi government issued driver’s licenses to women for the first time in the country’s history. But London School of Economics professor Madawi al Rasheed says Saudi women are hardly even people under the law. She explains what life is like for women in Saudi Arabia, and Vox’s Jenn Williams tells Sean Rameswaram about the Saudi prince who says he wants reform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.0	This was a big week for women in Saudi Arabia.
0:32.0	Saudi Arabia began issuing driving licenses to women for the first time, three weeks before
0:41.4	the Kingdom plans to lift its ban on female drivers.
0:45.0	When we found out about Saudi women driving for the first time we thought, it'd be a positive
0:49.4	story to cover on the show.
0:50.4	Saudi officials say 10 women were issued driving licenses on Monday and another 2000 will receive
0:58.1	theirs next week.
0:59.4	Good news.
1:00.4	Then we got in touch with Madawi Al Rashid.
1:03.4	Superficial journalists in the West are preoccupied with this symbolic driving issue without being
1:11.8	able to go beyond it and scrutinize that pressing issues of human rights, equality, transparency
1:20.2	and many other problems in Saudi Arabia.
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