Over 80 Female Cab Drivers To Be Employed In Four Saudi Airports

Four airports in Saudi Arabia will give employment to about 80 female cab drivers as the kingdom is continuously making social reforms which are aimed to reduce the gender gap with the goal of Vision 2030.

The airports where these women will be employed are King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Prince Muhammad International Airport in Madinah and King Fahd International Airport in Dammam.

80 Female Cab Drivers In Vision 2030 Push

The process to hire is the first phase of the initiative which is named Women’s Track to empower women, particularly in the field of transportation launched by Saudi Arabia’s Transport General Authority with the cooperation of Social Development, represented by the Tawteen Program-2 and the Ministry of Human Resources.

In phase two of this initiative a comprehensive training program for learning basic skills like customer service, first aid and the English language to assist in driving a cab. The TGA has said that the women's track initiative will be contributing to developing and improving the experience of transportation service as well as receiving passengers, because of the authority’s keenness to support job creation, activate the role of women in the programmes transport sector and increase local content.

The edition second of the Tawteen program will create 170,000 jobs in Saudi Arabia itself, with approximately 30,000 jobs in tourism, 25,000 jobs in the industry sector and 20,000 in the health, logistic services, construction, transport and real-estate sector. It will also create 15,000 jobs in the trade sector and 40,000 in the areas related to the economy.

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To support the increasing role of women and their contribution to the national economy, Saudi has already announced that it will include many private female drivers as a part of its new Munsaned recruitment program.

In the month of February, Hala Al Tuwaijri the President of the Saudi Human Rights Commission during the session of the UN’s human right council shared the fact that the share of women in the economy through employment jumped from 21% to 35% in the last five years, with a continued effort by the kingdom to boost participation in the labour market.