{"id":288822,"date":"2021-02-17T19:28:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T22:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=288822"},"modified":"2021-02-18T18:00:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T21:00:55","slug":"there-are-1814-women-working-in-the-saudi-judicial-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/there-are-1814-women-working-in-the-saudi-judicial-system\/","title":{"rendered":"There are 1,814 women working in the Saudi judicial system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 There were 1,814 women working in Saudi Arabia\u2019s judicial system in 2020. So said Noura Al-Ghunaim, the director of the Women\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Arab News reported that the number of women in the judiciary went up since the Women\u2019s Department was created, in tandem with other Ministry initiatives to encourage women to join the sector and contribute to national growth.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi government\u2019s Vision 2030 strategic plan provides for things including bigger female participation in the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Justice said the Justice Training Center \u201crecently offered to lawyers to help them obtain a license. The courses were attended by 4,070 lawyers out of which 1,680 were women,\u201d <em>Arab News<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-288813\">AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gulf nation created a Women\u2019s Department at the Ministry of Justice to encourage females to join the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":288813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[11910,7724,19222,19221,28534,6004,19050,7723,2354],"class_list":{"0":"post-288822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-arabia-saudita-en","9":"tag-female","10":"tag-judicial","11":"tag-lawyer","12":"tag-mulheres-en","13":"tag-saudi","14":"tag-sauditas-en","15":"tag-woman","16":"tag-women"},"wps_subtitle":"The Gulf nation created a Women\u2019s Department at the Ministry of Justice to encourage females to join the sector. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}