Please explain.Saudi is the worst option in the Middle East outside of a war zone.
It's one of the most repressive and despotic countries in the world.
Small moves recently to reduce the levels of slavery that women live under are window dressing.
As long as you are happy to live in a compound and have a lack of human empathy bordering on the sociopathic then it's a grand place to work but if you have any compassion for your fellow man (and more particularly women) then you will find it a very hard place to live.
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A sibling is moving across to the Middle East.
It's one of the most repressive and despotic countries in the world.
Small moves recently to reduce the levels of slavery that women live under are window dressing.
As long as you are happy to live in a compound and have a lack of human empathy bordering on the sociopathic then it's a grand place to work but if you have any compassion for your fellow man (and more particularly women) then you will find it a very hard place to live.
In my personal experience I found the men I met there (no women allowed to work so I didn't meet any) to be racist, misogynistic (that word doesn't to them justice), extremist, homophobic bigots. In their interaction with me they were professional and friendly, it just wasn't in their world view to be anything other than the product of their upbringing.
I have never worked in Saudi but I would always ask myself before I took a new job in a new country what is the worst thing that could happen.
Say you started working in Saudi and had a disagreement with your Saudi boss and got fired could you easily get another job. If the job included accommodation where would that leave you?
If you were in a traffic accident or fell foul of a local due to an argument and it ended up involving a Saudi police officer might you end up in jail?
Personally such a country would be too risky a place in the event that things didnt work out. And non muslims are probably low on the pecking order there if its a contentious issue between a local and an irish person.
What's a "subcontinent worker"? And do you really think it's a choice and not a necessity to sell yourself into slavery for years so that your family doesn't starve?I do have empathy for the subcontinent workers, but they are there by choice.
Most women who work do so in the education sector. They have their own schools and universities controlled by their own ministry (the ministry is controlled by men). The first women lawyers in Saudi were only licenced a few years ago (I think there were only a few of them). If you are suggesting that women have anything approaching equality in social, educational or legal settings then you can't be taken seriously.Saudi women are very strong and very well educated.
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