Covered from head to toe and driven by male guardians, Saudi women voted Saturday for the first time, in a tentative step towards easing sex discrimination in the ultra-conservative Islamic kingdom.
In another first, women were allowed to stand as candidates in the polls for municipal councils, the country’s only elected public chambers.
“Now women have a voice,” Awatef Marzooq told AFP after casting her ballot for the first time at a school in the capital.
“I cried. This is something that we only used to see on television taking place in other countries.”
Despite the presence of female contenders for the first time, Marzooq said she picked a male candidate because of his ideas including more nurseries.
“I voted for a man, but I hope a woman will win,” she said.
Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy with some of the world’s tightest restrictions on women, including a ban on driving.
It was the last country to allow only men to vote.
In a reminder of the continued gap between the two sexes, polling stations were segregated.
Outside one centre for women in Riyadh, cars driven by men arrived every few minutes with female voters dressed in black robes.
Some of the women asked the media not to take their photograph before they were whisked away.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/saudi-holds-first-ever-election-open-to-women/

OZAOEKPE:
MAN IS THE ONLY REASON MAN IS IN BONDAGE, GOD CREATED US TO BE FREE, BUT OUT OF SELFISH REASONS, WE TEND TO IMPRISON OUR FELLOW BEING..... I WANT A WORLD WHERE WOMEN WOULD BE FREE JUST LIKE THEIR MALE COUNTERPART, IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR RELIGION. ITS A GREAT NEWS COMING OUT FROM THE ISLAMIC STATE................ #FEMINIST

What would you say about Iran and Pakistan? The current Vice president of Iran is a woman, She has previously held the same office in 1997. Have even the US ever achieve such feats? And then Benazir Bhutto the Democratic elected female president of Pakistan that was assassinated.

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