American women - be thankful you're not living in Saudi Arabia.

QUOTE from Claire Booth Luce:: "Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not kocked her out."   

I LEARNED a little more about the life of women in Saudi Arabia.  I just read the latest issue of TIME magazine's article about women struggling to get the right to drive in Saudi Arabia.

Females made some progress in the 1960s when Saudi Arabia's king allowed girls to go to school, including university. Now women make up 58% of the university population. Unfortunately, women make up only 15% of the work force. Being women can't drive they rely on male family members to get around or hire immigrant drivers at considerable cost. So many females workers have to spend a big part of their salary to pay their drivers - so it discourages them from working.

So why don't women have the right to drive in Saudi Arabia?  According to Sheik Abdallah al-Oweardi, a moderate religious scholar, there is nothing in the Koran that prohibits a woman from driving. But in religious rulings, conservative clerics have argued that driving allows women too much freedom and might lead to illicit mixing of the sexes. The Sheik said, "This is to protect our women from harassment and to protect society from the problems you see in the West - single mothers and illegitimate children - that come from unconditional relations between men and women."

Other things women cannot do in Saudi Arabia are:
- They cannot leave the country without permission from a male guardian.
- Women cannot take out loans without having two men vouch for their identity, even if they carry government-issued IDs.
- Custody laws automatically favor the father.

I don't think Saudi laws would go over too well in the USA.

HUMOR for today.
Rumor has it that Anthony Weiner is going to run for president.
He has chosen Attorney General Eric Holder as his running mate.
So get your Weiner-Holder bumper stockers early, before they are all gone.