Majority of Women Reject Driving
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News

JEDDAH, 17 June 2005 — A little over 88 percent of Saudi women interviewed in a survey rejected the idea of women driving in the Kingdom.
They said driving was not a priority for them; this echoed the view expressed earlier by Interior Minister Prince Naif.

In a survey of 1,014 Saudi women living in major urban centers, only 7.5% considered it important to drive: 88.6% said they have other priorities.

Interpreting the results of this poll–and we assume that it was properly constructed and conducted–is going to be difficult. It might mean exactly what it says: Saudi women simply have other priorities for exerting their efforts. Conversely, it could be that they are timid souls who vote the way the males in their families tell them to vote. While the latter is certainly possible, I think the former more likely.