{"id":1416,"date":"2018-02-19T07:07:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T07:07:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-02-19T07:07:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T07:07:48","slug":"saudi-women-will-officially-be-allowed-open-businesses-without-male-permission-thanks-new-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/news\/announcements\/saudi-women-will-officially-be-allowed-open-businesses-without-male-permission-thanks-new-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Women Will Officially Be Allowed To Open Their Own Businesses WITHOUT Male Permission Thanks To A New Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-adunit c-adunit--mpu\">\n<div id=\"mpu\" class=\"c-adunit__container\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Saudi government has given permission to the women in the kingdom to start their own businesses without the permission of their male-counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>Women in the past were only allowed to open a business with the approval of a guardian and visit a clerk to for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/02\/18\/saudi-reform-continues-women-given-freedom-open-businesses\/\" target=\"_blank\">documentation<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday,\u00a0Saudi&#8217;s Ministry of Commerce and Investment announced on twitter that\u00a0a new system will electronically allow women to start-up their business with no special permission.<\/p>\n<h3>The Kingdom has also seen a 29% increase in female lawyers<\/h3>\n<div class=\"c-adunit c-adunit--mpu_mid\">\n<div id=\"mpu_mid\" class=\"c-adunit__container\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The number of licensed Saudi lawyers in 2017 reached almost five thousand practitioners\u00a0&#8211; 4,607 were men and 209 were <a href=\"http:\/\/saudigazette.com.sa\/article\/528668\/SAUDI-ARABIA\/29-jump-in-number-of-female-lawyers\" target=\"_blank\">women<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Authority of the Saudi Lawyers said there are 8,766 law graduates currently under training, which includes 6,835 men and 1,931 women.<\/p>\n<p>An increase of 29% for women lawyers\u00a0compared to 13% for men lawyers from last year.<\/p>\n<h3>2030 vision for a more modern Kingdom<\/h3>\n<p>This modernisation and liberalisation of the Kingdom is credited to crown prince Mohammad bin Salman&#8217;s 2030 Vision for a more modern Kingdom, which is less reliant on oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saudi government has given permission to the women in the kingdom to start their own businesses without the permission of their male-counterpart. 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