Comments on: Saudi Women and Education

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:38:07 +0000

Yes, that’s true, but I wasn’t going by the figure cited in the article. I was using other figures that put the number of employed Saudi women at around 8%. I’ll look for a citation for that.

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:18:15 +0000

Thanks for making the correction (it reads better now), but the original news article states that “the number of employed Saudi women is estimated at 10.25 percent”, i.e. 89.75 percent are employed. It would be more accurate to state that “almost 90% of them have no jobs!”, instead of “more than 90% of them have no jobs!”, which may sound like an exaggeration. Sorry for being pedantic.

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:32:04 +0000

Yes, that’s a much clearer way of putting it. Thanks and I’ll make the change

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:08:14 +0000

Perhaps you meant “almost 90% of them have no jobs!”, instead of “less than 90% of them have jobs!”