https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/23/middleeast/saudi-women-driving-ban-lifts-intl/index.html
Aseel Al Hamad is a woman from Saudi Arabia. This picture shows her driving a Formula One car before the French Grand Prix on the day her country lifts the ban on women drivers.
Until Saturday 23rd June women were not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. To celebrate the lifting of the ban, Aseel drove the car as part of a parade of vehicles. Aseel says, "I believe today is not just celebrating a new era of women starting to drive, it is also the birth of women in motor sport in Saudi Arabia."
"I have loved racing and motor sport form a very young age and to drive a Formula One cargoes even beyond my dreams and what I thought was possible. I hope doing so on the day when women can drive on the roads in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia shows what you can do if you have the passion and spirit to dream."
Many women in Saudi Arabia drove for the first time at Midnight on June 24th. Dr Mona Al-Fares was waiting in her car with her family before midnight so that she could be among the first to drive in her country; "I feel happy, relieved, I feel like I'm free" she said.
Not everyone agrees with women driving; Khaled Abdullah Al-Houba says women need at least two years to learn to drive; "Saudi women still don't have the guts needed to drive."
Saudi Arabia is the last country in the world have such a ban which means now there is no country in the world where women are not allowed to drive. Women across Saudi Arabia celebrated, tweeting pictures and videos as they drove cars around their city.
What do you see in the picture?
What kind of car is the person driving?
What kind of person drives a car like that?
explain the story
- What does gender mean?
- What is gender equality?
- Saudia Arabia is the last country in the world to ban women from driving and now that ban is lifted. What does this show us about the world today and attitudes towards gender equality?
- Why do you think Aseel Al Hamad chose to drive a Formula One car to celebrate?
- Why do some people still think women should not drive?
- what would you say to Khaled Abdullah Al-Houba?
- How do ideas and attitudes change?
- What can we learn from the women of Saudi Arabia?
- Why is this story about No Outsiders?
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