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2005-02-24 Arabia

Foreign Ministry to Appoint Women for First Time: Saud

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Posted by Fred 2005-02-24 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 After all, wasn't it the Brits who created Saudi Arabia in the first place?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-24 7:30:16 AM|| 2005-02-24 7:30:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Saudi-British conference, where the two nationsâ chief diplomats reflected on eight decades of warm relations between their two peoples

Involving macho sheiks and English public school graduates, no doubt.

Posted by gromgorru 2005-02-24 7:43:16 AM|| 2005-02-24 7:43:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Not quite, TW. The Hejaz (Red Sea coast, including Mecca and Medina) were put under a Hashemite king (as were Jordan and Iraq) because they liked the family. Saud invaded in the 1920s (30s?) I think. The Brits didn't invite them in, or set it up that way, but they didn't do anything to stop it.

Posted by Jackal 2005-02-24 8:16:12 AM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-02-24 8:16:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 So they're going to give them positions in the Foreign Ministry, eh? They can't have their own passports, but they're going to be part of the ministry that administers them? Hell, they aren't allowed to drive themselves to work, what sort of positions is he blathering about, Tea Service?

Posted by .com 2005-02-24 9:01:00 AM|| 2005-02-24 9:01:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 If the women sit behind a screen, they could direct visitors to the appropriate office. Tea service only in a meeting room, where the tea can be delivered, and the women whisk themselves out of sight, before the men walk in. Perhaps the Saudis will open a Women's Section, where female citizens can come and talk to female civil servants, so long as no real action is taken until the women's male guardians come in person to sign the approval papers, over on the Men's side of the building.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-24 1:14:43 PM|| 2005-02-24 1:14:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 .com, the tea service will be given by the ladies' female servants. Sauid ladies won't do. And TW, I was thinking the same thing. Woman to woman discourse, but nothing important.

BTW, Mister minister: Yeah, the US had to go through a civil war to eliminate slavery and voting rights were granted to British women in two stages, but open up your calcified brain and understand all that means is that your country should be smart enough not to follow the same wrong policies.

Posted by chicago mike 2005-02-24 3:20:37 PM|| 2005-02-24 3:20:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 and a full week of "she's unavailable - menstruating"

Posted by Frank G 2005-02-24 4:06:10 PM|| 2005-02-24 4:06:10 PM|| Front Page Top

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