Women's Rights In Saudi Arabia - Article Example

CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE FEATURE ARTICLE ABOUT WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN SAUDI ARABIA Name Institution Course Date Critical Analysis of the Feature Article about Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia For a very long period I have had interest in the subject of women’s rights across the world. When I was around 10 years old, my cousin mentioned how we were living in a men-dominated world. At first I did not understand what he meant and upon further inquiry he hinted to me that women were being treated as second-class citizens. I made a promise to study the subject of how women’s rights are violated although I had not decided at what age I would do that, or on which region I would focus my attention. The feature article that I wrote explored the issue of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia. The aspects that were covered included education, healthcare and driving. The article mentions about gender inequity where power imbalance has been demonstrated in many aspects in life. As such, women have become more vulnerable in patriarchal societies such as Saudi Arabia. According to Kelly (2010) patriarchal societies are male-dominated and women are given very few chances to make decisions. Decisions that touch on issues such as land ownership, marriage, and any other property issue are a preserve for men. My desire to explore this topic has also been driven by the urge to find out whether such societies really exist and what women have to say about them. Are they comfortable when men dominate almost all aspects of their lives? What measures have they taken to ensure their rights are respected? When I was being brought up in my family, both my parents advocated for gender equality. My father in particular was for the idea that no human being should be mistreated for being a woman or a man. He quite often posed the question, “do we decide our gender when we are born?” An example of the patriarchal society as mentioned in the article is Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia being an Islamic state has been in the limelight because the freedoms that exist in the Universal Declaration in Human Rights are not practiced in this country. This country was therefore the most favorable to feature in my article for addressing the issue of women’s rights. I also wanted to find out whether the information I read about Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia, is true. In the past I had read that women were treated as being inferior to men and were therefore not encouraged to be in what are considered to be public positions. The article has also addressed the issue of women covering their faces in public. After conducting my research I realized that the idea of the Islamic women covering their faces was not a fashion trend and neither was is an act of preserving their beauty. As I sourced for the material for the article, I came across some information that in the Islamic States, the human rights laws are applied discriminatively and hence women are treated with less respect than men. According to Lippman (2012) the areas of women’s rights that are mostly violated by most Islamic states include the system of guardianship, discrimination in the education sector, unequal treatment in the health sector, and the ban in driving for the female drivers. I was particularly concerned with the reasons behind banning women from driving in Saudi Arabia. In this article it was mentioned that women in Saudi Arabia were treated as second-class citizens because they happened to be victims of circumstances. The interpretation for this is that they had little to do in changing their gender since such decisions are related to God, the creator of human beings. To write a feature article, a person is supposed to develop an idea and have deep interest in it. Without personal interest, it would be challenging to gather information or even to go an extra mile in sacrificing personal time. For a feature article that has more than two thousand words, it is important to address an issue that concerns the public for the potential readers to be curious. It will be completely unnecessary and a waste of resources to write a feature article that will not attract a wide spectrum of readers. A feature article should also avoid a boring subject, or an issue that only affects some few individuals. The population of women in the world is said to be higher than that of men. Although this has not been mentioned in this article, it is significant to understand that the subject of women’s rights violation is likely to attract a huge audience (El-Gilany & Al-Wehady, 2008). I was therefore quite confident and motivated to write a feature article that would educate and inform people on pertinent issues affecting them in the society. Ideas for feature articles should focus on particular problems such as drama, struggle, anxiety, tension, or conflict in the society. Women’s rights in Saudi Arabia represent the struggle experienced by women as they strive to remain relevant in the male-dominated world. I also included the aspect of conflict in the article to address how women feel discriminated by being denied what men accessed freely. The concept of a feature article should also be relevant in the modern society as women’s right is a main subject that has been a concern to human rights’ groups in different parts of the world. It is also a current issue that is likely to dominate the media until the concerns of women’s rights violation are addressed amicably. To be sincere, change is not likely to be experienced soon and hence this may remain a hot subject to address even in many years to come. A journalist is supposed to be a voice for the voiceless, a sight to the blind, an ear to the deaf, and a leg to the lame. I believe there are many women in the world whose rights are violated just like the women in Saudi Arabia (Nazir & Tomppert, 2005). The problems facing the women in Saudi Arabia is therefore a representation of what could be affecting women across the world. Since a feature article addressing the rights of women in the whole world might be too large or impractical, I decided to choose Saudi Arabia so as to produce a high quality article that would attract a large audience. By focusing in a particular region, I was also likely to produce an article that was well researched and contained accurate information. As an indication that the issue of women’s rights was a global concern the article states that “Saudi women instigated a right-to drive campaign that gained attention from international media and other conservative authorities in Saudi Arabia (Healy & Link, 2012)”. The article has also remained neutral by not inclining on any side of the society but rather addressing the truth about women’s rights violation. While writing this article, I was aware of the professional ethics that I was supposed to observe. In relation to this, I avoided writing any information that would worsen the situation in Saudi Arabia or cause acrimony in any other society in the world. It was therefore important to address the issue as something that requires improvement other than something that should be retained. To avoid being biased or being perceived to be so, I focused on the subject matter from both women’s and men’s point of view. This was mainly done by researching on the reasons why most of the Islamic laws, as practiced in Saudi Arabia, seemed to favor men. In addition, I also avoided justifying the stand taken by either women or men in Saudi Arabia but instead left it to the readers to make informed decisions. It was also important to be cautious in handling the issue of Islamic religion since most of what is perceived to be violation of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia, is mostly as a result of the strict Islamic laws. I explored every fact pertaining to the gender discrimination practiced in Saudi Arabian medical field in this article because very few authors or journalists have addressed this issue exhaustively and truthfully. The continuity of gender inequity in Saudi Arabia relies upon people who take their time and address the pressing issue at hand. In this case, I took time and went through articles published by different authors and journalists concerning women’s rights in Saudi Arabia (Baderin & Senyonjo, 2010). I found out that they addressed it as a normal subject and not an issue that requires international human rights intervention. I frankly addressed this issue as part of this article’s main concern so as to inform all readers that this practice is unethical and violates human rights on the female gender side. I used well researched books and articles in gathering the information that I articulated in this article. Initially, I had only read about female gender discrimination as one of the ways in which Saudi women are infringed against their rights. I took my time and went to Saudi Arabia to find out the true essence of the stories I was hearing from TV news, magazines and books. As a result, I discovered all I wrote in this article from my personal point of view (El-Gilany, and Al-Wehady, 2008, p. 35). I heard the information about the practices of women discrimination against their rights in Saudi Arabia where they are treated as second-class citizens. This was not enough when Brendan Hennessy’s words are taken as an advice before writing about the issues at hand. In her own words, she says, ‘A subject for an article is not enough: you need and idea’ (Hennessy, 1997: 3). She was right, indeed having taken my time and stayed in Saudi Arabia during a vacation, I kept keen interest gathering full information. I barely encountered hardship in developing this article based on the fact that I was interested in the issues of human rights keeping in mind the views of Brendan Hennessy about the ideas to use in any article creation. In my case, I am trying to bring reality of what happens in Saudi Arabia to the light so that the whole world can have a glimpse of it. As far as Dalia Mortada and Imani try to reveal more about the changes taking place in Saudi Arabia, they fail to express the whole truth about what has not been changed and need to be changed in Saudi Arabia. This is where I thought keenly and felt that something has to be done by revealing the truth. Every time a person decides write an article, there must be something worth to inform the public. It was for this reason that Hennessy in her own words articulates that, ‘ideas for articles tend to deal with a specific problem, tension, drama, struggle, conflict, question, doubt or anxiety’ (Hennessy, 1997:3). In developing this article, I used all aspects of a hypothetical life situation and made sure the article made some sense in the modern society. I did this to highlight the issues affecting the society for them to be focused keenly by the international and local human rights organizations. The magazines featuring human rights in any states would probably attract a lot of humanitarians and hence I addressed women discrimination in the Saudi Arabian medical field because medication is one of the basics of life (Amartya, 2009, p. 41). This issue pressed me to an extent where I could not stand to hide the truth. Thus, I addressed the real part of medical field that requires changes so that women, just like, men may be given equal right to treatment and medical opportunities (Kelly, 2010). Any reader that would focus in this section of my article would find out the intensity of the matter. When collecting the information pertaining to the discriminative issues against the women gender in Saudi Arabia, I had to interview some patients with an intention of finding out more about what was on the media sources. This was successful since it enabled me to find out such restrictions as, women not being treated in public hospitals unless they are accompanied by a male relative who is either a husband or a father. In addition, I found out the reason why most patients in critical conditions requiring urgent attendance usually die. In public hospitals, any patient could not be operated on without that operation consent being signed in by a male doctor who might for one reason or another be away and out of reach (Al-Nozha, 2005, p.825). This was a crucial idea that needed to be addressed so that the whole world could be persuaded to support the women’s rights movements in Saudi Arabia and in other parts of the world. On the issue of women being prohibited to drive by the Saudi government, I had a lot to write because this was an matter that the Saudi Arabian women have tried their best through public campaigns to persuade the government to give them this right. To find more information pertaining to driving I had to interview some women and find out what really happens when it comes to driving in their country. In the process, I managed to get more information that I did not know off. Some of the information I came across had not been addressed by earlier authors who wrote about gender discrimination in Saudi Arabia. This prompted me to realize the significance of Friedlander and Lee’s words on the best way to request for an interview from any respondent. According to these authors, you need to clearly and quickly explain who you are, the reason for your interview, the topic for the interview, and the time you intend to use in conducting the interview (Friedlander & Lee, 2000: 149). I employed Friedlander and Lee’s advice when preparing and carrying out my interview. In addition, I tried my level best to keep time during interviews and did not ask biased questions during the interview. In writing the article on women’s rights in Saudi Arabia, I was able to give specific quotes from different authors and statically analyzed the exact number of people that viewed the video of AlSharif where she was driving while talking to another woman (Stewart, 2011). This was mainly due to the reason that the analysis of this statistics was available in books, articles and news papers that were published in the times of those campaigns. I managed to acquire them through thorough reading and researching in the local libraries in Saudi Arabia. All this was done to ensure that full and real information about the women’s rights violation in Saudi Arabia was brought to the public attention. I used all aspects of writing such as direct quoting of the words from specific people that participated in the women’s rights movement campaigns. A best example is Manal AlSharif who wrote on her facebook page that, “I Will Drive Starting June 17th”. The information about their campaign participations were all over and still can be found in some hidden sources found in private and domestic libraries (Nichols, 2011, p. A2). I managed to come across some pictures and movies which enabled me get the exact truth on what I had to write I used first-hand information that I gathered from the Abu Dhabi’s English Publication called, The National, which gave a statement over why the women had to scatter during their protests. It states that “planners of the June 17 protest were taking caution to avoid violating the kingdom’s prohibition of public demonstration by requesting women to participate in their errands individually without converging in one place (Nichols, 2011, p. A2).” An idea I borrowed from the early writer called Hennessy who articulated that articles mainly deal with specific problems or issues that bring apprehension in the society (Hennessy, 1997:3). In this case, I made it real by exposing the reality about women’s rights violation practices in Saudi Arabia. The use of direct information does not only make me a realistic artist but also an author in the modern society who intends to educate people on the issues that affect their daily lives. Gathering information about the article is a task I almost hated but later came to like when I found newspapers and video records in libraries that gave me information pertaining to women’s rights violation. I wrote the reality I found out in the process of gathering information where I managed to address the truth about the number of people that had been influenced by the women’s rights movement campaign initiated by AlSharif and others. Consequently, I also managed to get the exact names of participants of the campaigns that were punished by the government-appointed religious police for trying to change the laws of the state. Such names included Fawziah Al Bakr, who was one of the women who participated in campaign that protested over driving ban in the year 1990. In one of the publications a journalist provided Fawziah’s reaction where she said that that, “It means that these girls learnt a lesson. They are smart (Nichols, 2011 p. A3).” In the process of gathering the information I used in writing this article, I encountered quite a number of challenges which are discussed in this section of the paper (Park, 2008). Before I settled down to write this article, I required more information that revealed the true essence of what happens in Saudi Arabia and concerns women as an inferior gender being subjected to discrimination. In this process I encountered a number of problems. The first problem I encountered while gathering the information to use in writing this article was lack of vivid and clear information from the articles I read. Authors such as Neil MacFarquhar and Dalia did not fully give a description of what really happens in Saudi Arabia in their articles. This made it quite difficult to gather the information I needed for my article. I therefore had to apply an extensive method in gathering information. When I was in Saudi Arabia, trying to gather information for my article, I encountered problems that other second-class citizens faced in that country. This included humanitarian discrimination in many public offices based on the fact that I was a foreigner in that country. This gave me a hard time to go around the country from urban centers to rural centers gathering real and factual information on my subject of research. I could not give up at such a time due to the urge I had to bring out the truth on this matter. I therefore had to go ahead and carry out the interview despite all those hurdles. I specifically remember an incident where I tried to interview a woman who refused to talk to me as a stranger due to the fear of being suspected of infidelity. When I was trying to gather information using interview methods, I also encountered a problem with people who had information on what affected women but were illiterate and could not converse in fluent English. I was therefore required to look for a translator who was to be paid for the service offered. By being a student I did not have enough money to sustain me through the process and had to look for literate people even if they may have lacked sufficient information. Another challenge I encountered in my data collection is the lack of cooperation from people that I felt had the information. When I introduced myself as a student who intended to interview them for a short time to get the information I wanted to put in my article, some did not trust me. They thought I was a government agent with an intention of getting information from them and set later set them up to the government. I was therefore given a hard time by Saudi Arabian society members that did not understand or trust me. For this reason, I had to move from one region to another looking for people who could understand my subject matter. In the process of gathering the information, there were times when I encountered people who had been victims of the women’s rights movement campaigns. In one instance I encountered one woman who used to work in a radio station that was closed down by the Saudi Arabian government appointed religious police after realizing that the station was helping the movement to spread their information. The woman, on hearing that I intended to collect the information pertaining the same issue that made her lose her job, did not listen to me but rather gave me her back and left. In addition, I did not easily have a chance to interview Saudi Arabian women because they lacked time to sit with me and answer my questions (Al-Tamin, 2004). Most of them were at home busy carrying out their domestic chores and therefore, gave me less time. In addition, women feared talking to me as they are restricted by laws from talking to second-class citizens. However, the men I had time to interview did not give the exact information as they found questions irrelevant and biased. To them, the rules, laws and regulation of the Saudi Arabia are normal and nothing needs to be addressed (Amartya, 2009). After gathering the information, I also encountered a number of challenges in putting the information in a style acceptable in an article. The first challenge I encountered was the difficulty to write the information in a logical order that would make it easy for a reader to understand. An article is different from a book and therefore, I was supposed to write the information in a way that would make it easier for the readers to comprehend. This arrangement had to be logical from an analysis of the discriminative practices in Saudi Arabia and to the analysis of the specific movements of women’s rights (Nydell, 2012). The issue of how the government of Saudi Arabia responded to their grievances also had to be tackled. Thirdly, I was to address trends and emerging issues that I witnessed in the Saudi Arabia pertaining to the freedom and rights of the country’s women. Another problem I encountered was paraphrasing some of the parts where an interviewee gave real words of social leaders, political leaders, or religious leaders in a congress when they were addressing people over women’s rights and freedom. I must admit that the Saudi women were very instrumental in assisting me with the information I required for my article. The first reason that made me find it easy in gathering the vital information was that most women were willing to give details on the discrimination they were subjected to. What I realized later was that most women who were bold in speaking out on the subject of women discrimination in Saudi Arabia, held positions of leadership in some non-governmental organizations (Boutayeb & Serghini, 2005). They had therefore been looking forward to any opportunity to speak openly on the ills affecting women. I was indeed encouraged by the fact that many authors that had written about rights of women in Saudi Arabia had only covered light issues. They feared talking about what really happened in Saudi Arabia. For this reason, writing about the truth without fear made me stand out as the first author to address this issue in its rightful form. In the process of gathering information, I found some information in the Abu Dhabi’s English Publication called, The National, which stated that “planners of the June 17 protest were taking caution to avoid violating the kingdom’s prohibition of public demonstration by requesting women to participate in their errands individually without converging in one place (Nichols, 2011 p. A2).” This made me realize that even though they were campaigning against the women’s rights discrimination, they tried their best not to cause havoc with the Saudi Arabian authority. In gathering the information, I encountered an easy time when I found newspapers and video records that were stored and gave me the information that I required (Al-Tamin, 2004). In the process I managed to find out the truth about the number of people that had been enlightened by the women’s right movement campaign that was carried out by AlSharif and others. In addition, I also managed to interact with individuals who had taken part in some of the protests addressing the issue of the violation of human rights in Saudi Arabia. In the process of data collection, I met people such as Nesrine Malik, who was a writer at the Guardian magazine, and also gave me her information pertaining to challenges faced by women in Saudi Arabia. During my interview with her, she articulated that, “The Saudi driving ban is a social rather than a political issue which the authorities would rather not create controversy on. The Arab rulers should take it as a lesson that withholding human rights may lead to explosion of dissent (Stewart, 2011).” She also added that the time of Women2Drive campaign, women were serious and truly wanted change. Thus, according to her, the arrest of AlSharif did not at any point deter the Women2Drive campaign. She added that religious police who are appointed by the government went ahead and arrested a Saudi woman named Shaima Jastaina and sentenced her in a religious court. She was in the process given 10 lashes for disobeying the country’s ban on female drivers. This information helped me in adding strength in my feature article. Conclusion Article writing is a task that requires critical thinking, analysis of the information, and sufficient information on the topic you want to write about. This is what I tried my best to have during the preparation to write the article. A good writer of articles must first be a person to whom reading of books, magazines and internet articles is part of his hobbies. Before writing an article, one must find the information on the topic. In my case, I had to read different sources of information pertaining to women’s rights violation in Saudi Arabia (Al-Nozha, 2005). When I discovered that books, articles, magazines and other internet sources could not give me the exact truth that I hoped to know based on stories I had heard, I decided to take the task of gathering information from a wide range of sources. I gathered first-hand information through witnessing the practices of women’s right violation in Saudi Arabia and by interviewing people on the streets and in homes. I also got primary information by observing most drivers in the streets to confirm whether there were women. In my observation, I found out that women are not allowed to drive in the Saudi Arabian State. I concluded this because in my travel I did not see any woman driving an automobile. After gathering the information by all means I have mentioned, I analyzed it and wrote an article that addressed all the issues in my topic of research. Therefore, I would like to encourage article writers, book authors, and magazine publishers to first gather the available information possible before writing their materials (Lippman, 2012). In addition to that, it is significant to be frank in writing by addressing each and every pressing issue covered by the topic of choice. The issue of women’s rights has been rampant in Saudi Arabia mostly because of the male domination. Although many people hide in the umbrella of Islam, the information gathered in my article was a proof that male dictatorship played a major role in the violation of human rights in Saudi Arabia. To gather the relevant information it that can be helpful to the intended audience, it is important for the author to incorporate the people who are affected directly by the subject of concern. As it was realized in this article, gathering information from direct sources or personal interviews is probably the best source of information. Such information is never distorted and the author may have the authenticity to justify the source. It is also paramount for authors to expect challenges while researching their information. Such challenges include communication barrier, availability of resources, security issues, cultural barriers, and transport barriers. As journalists, we should not shy away from challenges as the most interesting stories are not easy to come by. List of References Al-Nozha, N., 2005. Obesity in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Medical Journal, Vol. 26(5), pp. 824-829. Alshamsi, M., 2011. Islam and Political Reform in Saudi Arabia: The Quest for Political Change and Reform. New Jersey: Taylor & Francis. Al-Tamin, D., 2004. Saudi women in academic medicine. Are they succeeding? Saudi Medical Journal, Vol. 25(11), pp. 1564-1567. Amartya, S., 2009. The many faces of gender inequality. New Republic, Vol. 225(12), pp. 35-41. Baderin, M., & Senyonjo, M., 2010. 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I also wanted to find out whether the information I read about Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia, is true. In the past I had read that women were treated as being inferior to men and were therefore not encouraged to be in what are considered to be public positions. The article has also addressed the issue of women covering their faces in public. After conducting my research I realized that the idea of the Islamic women covering their faces was not a fashion trend and neither was is an act of preserving their beauty.

As I sourced for the material for the article, I came across some information that in the Islamic States, the human rights laws are applied discriminatively and hence women are treated with less respect than men. According to Lippman (2012) the areas of women’s rights that are mostly violated by most Islamic states include the system of guardianship, discrimination in the education sector, unequal treatment in the health sector, and the ban in driving for the female drivers. I was particularly concerned with the reasons behind banning women from driving in Saudi Arabia.

In this article it was mentioned that women in Saudi Arabia were treated as second-class citizens because they happened to be victims of circumstances. The interpretation for this is that they had little to do in changing their gender since such decisions are related to God, the creator of human beings. To write a feature article, a person is supposed to develop an idea and have deep interest in it. Without personal interest, it would be challenging to gather information or even to go an extra mile in sacrificing personal time.

For a feature article that has more than two thousand words, it is important to address an issue that concerns the public for the potential readers to be curious. It will be completely unnecessary and a waste of resources to write a feature article that will not attract a wide spectrum of readers. A feature article should also avoid a boring subject, or an issue that only affects some few individuals. The population of women in the world is said to be higher than that of men. Although this has not been mentioned in this article, it is significant to understand that the subject of women’s rights violation is likely to attract a huge audience (El-Gilany & Al-Wehady, 2008).

I was therefore quite confident and motivated to write a feature article that would educate and inform people on pertinent issues affecting them in the society. Ideas for feature articles should focus on particular problems such as drama, struggle, anxiety, tension, or conflict in the society. Women’s rights in Saudi Arabia represent the struggle experienced by women as they strive to remain relevant in the male-dominated world. I also included the aspect of conflict in the article to address how women feel discriminated by being denied what men accessed freely.

The concept of a feature article should also be relevant in the modern society as women’s right is a main subject that has been a concern to human rights’ groups in different parts of the world. It is also a current issue that is likely to dominate the media until the concerns of women’s rights violation are addressed amicably. To be sincere, change is not likely to be experienced soon and hence this may remain a hot subject to address even in many years to come. A journalist is supposed to be a voice for the voiceless, a sight to the blind, an ear to the deaf, and a leg to the lame.

I believe there are many women in the world whose rights are violated just like the women in Saudi Arabia (Nazir & Tomppert, 2005). The problems facing the women in Saudi Arabia is therefore a representation of what could be affecting women across the world. Since a feature article addressing the rights of women in the whole world might be too large or impractical, I decided to choose Saudi Arabia so as to produce a high quality article that would attract a large audience. By focusing in a particular region, I was also likely to produce an article that was well researched and contained accurate information.

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