Undoubtedly Prince Salman bin Mohammad since the year 2015, has launched many radical liberalisation moves that his country has seen under Vision 2030. With his instant rise in the Kingdom’s pecking order to the presumptive heir to the royal throne, he was gaining the popularity as the real political leader of the oil-rich state.
I feel concessions given on his part to the Saudi women are as vital as anything can be. Appearing intricate in the first sight he came forward in easing ways for the women necessarily. In actuality, Saudi women were given the opportunity of travelling without a guardian. It was one more addition in various changes affected through the liberal views of the Kindom’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman. In all cases, they were still not completely free from the guardian’s direct care, as critics viewed, adding that the women in that country were still not free to enter into the matrimony. The guardian system binds them in this social custom.
However, Saudi Arabian women, for the past several months, have been regularly getting relaxation in terms of being allowed to drive, allowed to take up high-profile jobs, and other things like viewing football matches at stadiums. Changes are definitely gripping the oil-rich Kingdom one after another but it could be termed as a slow process. Their fight seemed more like a caged bird that seeks liberation every moment. Their fight continues for a hassle-free life in the conservative society.
I think what transforms that conservative kingdom is nothing but the culmination of the long struggle by the women. By and by they are moving with their desired goals onwards. Discontent cannot be suppressed for a long time; this was the history of humankind. By nature, man and woman want to live a free life and if any control comes in the way they either revolt or protest in the strongest way. The influence of the West cannot be negated in every sphere of our lives and it reflects in the changes of Saudia Arabia too.
Modern-day education develops rational thinking and staunchly opposing everything that is traditional. That is why I feel the westernised way of living has been accepted as the scale of good living. Despite the prevalence of the Hanbali School of Jurisprudence in the Kingdom, the Wahabi preachers, scholars, and judges support the rule of guardianship there. But I think the conflict pervades amid the glitter of the modernity.
Saudi women were tirelessly fighting for their emancipation from the royalty’s stern rules and certainly, the few basic changes for ample proof of their engagement in the struggle that involves conflicts emphatically.