São Paulo – There were 1,814 women working in Saudi Arabia’s judicial system in 2020. So said Noura Al-Ghunaim, the director of the Women’s Department at the Ministry of Justice, Arab News reported this Wednesday (17). The number of licensed female lawyers climbed 66% from 618 in 2019 to 1,029 last year.
Al-Ghunaim explained that female judiciary workers are in sectors including legal and social research, program development and administrative assistants. The director estimates that these workers served more than 30,500 people last year.
Arab News reported that the number of women in the judiciary went up since the Women’s Department was created, in tandem with other Ministry initiatives to encourage women to join the sector and contribute to national growth.
The Saudi government’s Vision 2030 strategic plan provides for things including bigger female participation in the workforce.
The Ministry of Justice said the Justice Training Center “recently offered to lawyers to help them obtain a license. The courses were attended by 4,070 lawyers out of which 1,680 were women,” Arab News reported.
Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum