POST 55 (19 April 2013 )

EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN

Princess Nora Bint Abdul Rahman is the world’s largest university in Saudi Arabia. It’s located in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia. This university provides higher education to meet the job market requirements in the kingdom. It has 15 departments and it has the capacity of 50,000 students.

The students have car free environment, operating shuttle monorail train and electric buggies for internal transport. While there are solar panels stretched through out the campus, which reportedly generate 18% electricity, which is needed for the air conditioning.700 bed hospital and other accommodation facilities are also provided to the students.

They are also providing the paper less education; actually they are providing internal activities based electronically. The university’s library contains six million books including references books.

Unfortunately, international media did not highlight about the world’s largest university but they are interesting in highlighting the issue of driving ban on women in Saudi Arabia. I want to ask a question that is this policy of the international media that spread misunderstanding between the public and the government of different countries? How they can say that women in Saudi Arabia are living an oppressed life? The Saudi government answered the international media by giving a slap on their faces by making the world’s largest university. I think they do not know the real empowerment of women is through education and by giving respect, not by giving them driving permission.  

I’m proud to be a woman. I’m also proud that I am getting my education from the first Women University of Pakistan that is “Jinnah University for Women.”