Perhaps the girls should just get their exercise at the gym if they aren't allowed to play sport.
Wait a minute... what's that???
Yes, it's the sound of Women's Rights in Saudi being trampled by clerics:
Saudi women face gyms ban
Action taken to shut down unlicensed, all-women fitness clubs, condemned as 'shameless' by Saudi Arabia's clerics
Saudi women could see their private sports clubs and gyms closed down because the government seems likely to agree licensing of the clubs for men only.
But news of the likely shutdown of dozens of female-only gyms came as a government official suggested that women might be allowed to vote in municipal elections, although they would still be barred from running for office.
With the sexes strictly separated in public in the conservative kingdom, the two reports illustrate the slow and fitful nature of the progress made since the octogenarian King Abdullah instigated reforms three years ago.
This year the government appointed its first woman as deputy minister to run a department for female students. But women are still banned from driving and they face many other restrictions. They are required to have compulsory guardianship by a male.
Perhaps the girls should just get their exercise at the gym if they aren't allowed to play sport.
Wait a minute... what's that???
Yes, it's the sound of Women's Rights in Saudi being trampled by clerics:
Saudi women face gyms ban
Action taken to shut down unlicensed, all-women fitness clubs, condemned as 'shameless' by Saudi Arabia's clerics
Saudi women could see their private sports clubs and gyms closed down because the government seems likely to agree licensing of the clubs for men only.
But news of the likely shutdown of dozens of female-only gyms came as a government official suggested that women might be allowed to vote in municipal elections, although they would still be barred from running for office.
With the sexes strictly separated in public in the conservative kingdom, the two reports illustrate the slow and fitful nature of the progress made since the octogenarian King Abdullah instigated reforms three years ago.
This year the government appointed its first woman as deputy minister to run a department for female students. But women are still banned from driving and they face many other restrictions. They are required to have compulsory guardianship by a male.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/26/saudi-women-sports-ban