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They are exceptions in a society where women’s suffrage is still a brand new idea. It’s hard to see how a system that bars women from fully participating economically and politically can be sustained.

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Despite all the barriers and rules, there are impressive examples of personal empowerment. Tasneem Salim and her 20-something friends are passionate and creative about developing and playing computer games. Excluded from an all-male gamers convention in Riyadh because of religious laws segregating men and women, they organized their own convention in 2012, which has been drawing 3,000 female gamers annually.

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The ban on women driving is a big impediment to political participation, as is the need to get permission from a male guardian to travel, work and enroll in school.

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The government did a poor job informing women about registration procedures and opened too few registration stations. It set up absurd rules for campaigning — female candidates in this gender-segregated society are barred from attending campaign events where men are present and from contacting them on social media.

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“It’s a token, a step toward women’s full citizenship,” admitted Dr. Hatoon Alfassi, a university professor and leading women’s rights campaigner from Riyadh

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Nassima al-Sadah “Men have to know that women must sit beside them in every decision-making and that their voices should be heard,”

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Nassima al-Sadah, a prominent human rights advocate and a leader of the movement to allow women to drive

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women in Saudi Arabia will run for public office and vote for the first time

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