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Politics : President Barack Obama

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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (95521)6/27/2011 3:05:41 PM
From: tejek   of 149317
 
Same goes for Saudi Arabia. Not only is literacy high, a big majority of Saudi women have university degrees, yet then can hardly work because of driving and other restrictions on where a woman can be and who she can be around, blahblah.

When they are unleashed? both those countries will be power houses intellectually.

far more Saudi women have higher degrees than do the men. Go figure.


In terms of empowerment of women, both countries stink:

en.wikipedia.org

SA ranks 129 out of 134 and Iran ain't much better. You repress 50% of your population and you might as well forget about making progress.
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