Norah al-Fayez, has created a record of being the first woman to ever be named to a ministerial post in Saudi Arabia, and has managed to penetrate the glass ceiling.
The veteran education administrator was named to the new post of deputy education minister for women's education as part of a sweeping shakeup of the government announced Saturday by the country's reform-minded absolute monarch King Abdullah.
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"A woman knows what problems and challenges her peers face. It's a change for the better," she said.
Saudi Arabia's dominant Wahhabi school of Islam imposes a strict separation of unrelated members of the opposite sexes, forces women to be shrouded in black from head to toe, bans them from driving, and keeps them dependent on male guardians when travelling outside the home.
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So Fayez's appointment to the job, on the doorstep of the king's powerful Council of Ministers, is widely seen as a major breakthrough.
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Her appointment is "a source of pride for all women," she said.
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She then worked in the education ministry on women's education and on private schools, before moving to the country's Institute of Public Administration in 1993, where she works now.
She is married with five children, three boys and two girls.
Other women called her appointment a landmark step forward in the kingdom.
"We believe that this is an occasion to push a number of recommendations to begin empowering women," legal expert Nawal al-Mazem told Riyadh newspaper.
"This decision shows the direction toward allowing Saudi women to work in high positions in the government," another legal consultant, Asmaa al-Ghanim, told Riyadh newspaper.
"More Saudi women taking ministerial jobs in the future cannot be ruled out," she said.
Source-AFP
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