The repercussions for women drivers were far smaller than a similar 1990 campaign, when 47 women were arrested.
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They shout "women drivers" and "man she's nuts, she's turning too early" and "ah no, she's coming back out".
There have been 12 incidents in the past fortnight, mostly targeting women drivers.
Another issue that Mr Ghamdi has weighed in on, for example, is Saudi Arabia's prohibition, unique among Muslim-majority countries, against women drivers.
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Nowadays, I've seen a lot of women drivers who are extremely good, but as they move up the formula, they're not quite strong enough.
Ecclestone said he had discussed introducing women drivers with Dietrich Mateschitz, who owns the Red Bull team that has dominated F1 for the past three years.
While tradition and attitudes towards gender make this issue particularly contentious in Saudi society, in our country, women drivers are not always perceived as astute as male drivers.
Maybe I will be the only male participant in the debate, but in my opinion, the role of an Arab woman in a modern Arab society will be completely different in terms of following: More professional working women, more businesswomen, more women politicians and more women drivers in the Kingdom.
But we also need to see the value of women as drivers of economic growth -- as educators, carers, farmers, entrepreneurs and above all, as leaders.
In this week's Scrubbing Up, she says that to have a daily "safe" amount is misleading and that some people - including pregnant women and drivers - should be told "no alcohol is best".
That pattern of thoughtfulness likely contributes to other findings, he said, like women being safer drivers, better students and more likely to vote.
Men like to complain about what bad drivers women are, but the evidence about highway fatalities suggests that testosterone causes twice as many deaths (per 100 million miles driven) as female driving does.
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In fact, women are leading drivers behind the opposition movement, and time and again since 1997, the female vote, a vast segment of more than 22 million, has tipped the balance in favor of reformist candidates.
Yet with younger clerics such as Mr Ghamdi doubting the scriptural grounds for making women rely on male drivers, other arguments are looking flimsier.
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In a primary school near a huge slum in Dhaka, pupils aged between six and 10 include the children of rickshaw drivers and women who break bricks for a living.
While research and driving instructors attest that women often make better drivers, advertising and marketing focuses on the male driver as those who drive for the joy of it, and have historically.
Women are often portrayed as flighty drivers and in timid roles.
But there are certain steps that we know will make a meaningful difference for small businessmen and women, who are the primary drivers of job creation.
Indeed, street-level harassment is like traffic for drivers, an unavoidable nuisance women confront whenever they leave the house.
Women are on the road to becoming drivers of their economies, running businesses, and creating jobs and opportunities within their communities and beyond.
The fruit cart vendors whispered to the newsboys who shouted to the hansom drivers who murmured to the society women who were overheard by servants who gossiped with bartenders who bantered with pimps and whores and drunks.
Men have always died more in traffic accidents -- initially, they were the more frequent drivers -- but even as women have dramatically increased their mileage in recent decades, the gap has barely budged: 61, 000 men were involved in fatal auto crashes in 2007, compared to only 33, 000 women.
Some women used their phones to take pictures of taxi drivers in an effort to guarantee personal safety.
Mr Worboys told the court he picked up some women he feared would be targeted by illegal minicab drivers.
Although there is no out-and-out law banning female drivers, licenses are not issued to women, even if they hold other international permits.
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The drivers agree that under King Abdullah, Saudi women have made progress in terms of expanding educational opportunities and growing access to jobs.
In the deeply conservative kingdom, women are prohibited from driving, and many must rely on foreign drivers for transportation.
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You know, a lot of the drivers and translators saved so many of your young men and women's lives, and I don't think we can walk out on them without having some plan as to how to take care of those who are targeted.
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"The question of women driving will result in being able to dispense with at least 500, 000 (foreign) drivers, in addition to the social and economic benefits, " he tweeted Sunday.
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For instance, the European Court of Justice recently ruled that rates could not be based on gender, a move that some feel will hurt female drivers by significantly raising their rates most especially female drivers under the age of 25, where the discrepancies in auto insurance rates between men and women are most pronounced.
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