RIYADH — Ameerah Altaweel, Chairwoman of the Board of Administrators of the Saudi Ladies Leaders Community, said that the community—comprising 220 members—is actively working to empower girls within the labor market by means of investments exceeding SR30 billion. She made these remarks throughout a panel dialogue titled “Ladies leaders shaping the longer term: The position of ladies in driving cultural transformations,” held as a part of the Saudi Media Discussion board, which concluded in Riyadh on Wednesday. The session was moderated by Wafaa Alrehaily.
The dialogue addressed numerous dimensions of ladies’s empowerment within the Kingdom, highlighting their position in main cultural and institutional transformations by means of the mixing of media, household, and schooling in getting ready distinguished Saudi girls leaders.
Altaweel emphasised that the community is open to all, underscoring the significance of increasing participation in influential positions so that ladies’s presence turns into the norm, with out the necessity for empowerment-related labels. She famous that ladies proceed to face challenges within the office, significantly as some boards of administrators nonetheless lack feminine illustration.
Dr. Maimoonah Al-Khalil, Secretary Basic of the Household Affairs Council, affirmed that ladies’s empowerment within the Kingdom has developed past merely offering alternatives and is now grounded in achievements and complementary roles. She highlighted that ladies are energetic contributors who make a tangible affect on institutional efficiency.
Dr. Al-Khalil additional harassed that Imaginative and prescient 2030 has positioned girls as important companions within the labor market and throughout all ranges, emphasizing that the household serves because the cornerstone of empowerment for all its members. She added that management growth begins in early childhood by increasing alternatives and deciding on acceptable instructional content material.
Zainab Abu Alsamh, CEO of the MBC Academy, underscored that ladies’s empowerment is achieved by means of partnership with males. She defined that institutional initiatives, reminiscent of girls’s empowerment committees, symbolize an vital step towards elevating consciousness, supplied they embrace decision-makers able to addressing challenges and overcoming obstacles.
Abu Alsamh harassed that driving cultural transformation will depend on investing in human capital and strengthening integration amongst establishments, households, and the media. This strategy fosters management fashions able to protecting tempo with change and ensures that ladies’s empowerment turns into a firmly established follow inside the social and developmental framework.




