Opinion Sultan Jessa: Women in Saudi Arabia get right to vote! – Seaway News

Opinion Sultan Jessa: Women in Saudi Arabia get right to vote! - Seaway NewsWomen in Saudi Arabia have taken a gigantic leap forward.

A big deal!

But, they still have a long way to go.

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has announced women will for the first time have the right to vote and run in local elections due in 2015.

King Abdullah is considered a reformer by the standards of his ultraconservative kingdom.

via Women in Saudi Arabia get right to vote! – Reforms are far too slow – Sultan jessa – Seaway News.

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