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The Ministry and Women.. Rights, Empowerment and Participation for National Developmen​t

The Ministry of Education seeks to achieve its goals by granting women their full right to empowerment and participation. This aims to support the national development and achieve the goals of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, where the Ministry is working to give women the right to free and distinctive education to achieve appropriate and effective educational outcomes to serve the country and its development future.

The Ministry has also increased the percentage of women’s participation in all educational sectors and at all functional levels. It has achieved this by investing in women’s energies and capabilities, expanding work options for them, increasing their participation to ensure equal opportunities for both sexes, and assuming senior leadership positions in educational sectors of all kinds and levels, up to the positions of Ministry Undersecretaries and General Managers.

The ministry was not only satisfied with giving women the opportunity to confront the internal public but also believed in the capabilities and competencies of women to face the external public as well. As a result, an official spokeswoman for the Ministry of Education for General Education was assigned, as the first woman to occupy this position at the level of a ministry in the Kingdom.

In this regard, the Ministry of Education has directed the implementation of a number of educational and development programs aimed at improving women's working conditions in the educational field. The Ministry had earlier announced the commencement of an initiative to strengthen professional and educational practices for female teachers as part of the National Program for the Development of Education, with the goal of removing them from professional isolation. It has provided them with a series of lectures, seminars, and workshops in all of the Kingdom's regions and governorates.

The ministry has also presented qualitative initiatives to support women’s leadership in the fields of research, innovation, and development, which have contributed to an increase in the rate of classified scientific pub​lications by 91% during the years from 2019 to 2021. In addition, the citation rate of scientific papers by female researchers increased to 52%, especially in the health and medical sciences, engineering sciences, technology, and computer sciences. This initiative comes among a number of initiatives and services specific to women, including scholarships, employment, continuing education, eradicating illiteracy, and so on.


Special Initiatives and Services for Women:

Scholarship:

Sending women who wish to continue their higher studies to obtain scientific degrees that meet the needs of the labor market and the requirements of development in the Kingdom. This aims to raise the level of scientific qualification for Saudi women, by sending them to distinguished international educational institutions with new and diverse specializations that contribute to building a prosperous economy and support the Kingdom’s promising sectors. To apply for those tracks and Scholarships via the following link::

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Employment:

Job opportunities for women in all sectors of education in order to achieve gender justice in the right to access job opportunities and to enhance women’s rights. In addition to responding to the support and care programs directed to them and provided by the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and to improving their work environment. Those wishing to join educational jobs can apply through the following link:

Electronic employment System (Jadara):

Continuing education and literacy Programs:

Providing continuing education and literacy services by registering in the programs of the Learned Neighborhood Centers, the Literacy Schools, the Literacy Community forum, and the Continuing Education Forum, in addition to registering for the comprehensive electronic system service for female adult education, and summer campaigns that are organized in places where it is difficult to prepare classes. These campaigns target female literacy students in remote areas. The Ministry of Education also provided the IEN Channel service to teach adult women by providing them with educational enrichment materials. It is possible to register in all programs for continuing education and literacy for women by entering the following link::

Continuing education and literacy

​The Ministry of Education has also worked to provide a number of procedures, services, programs and initiatives to empower the role of women in society and their participation in various aspects of life. These initiatives aim to activate its participation in the educational process, and to raise the level of that participation, the most prominent of these services are:

  • Delivery Leave:  The Ministry of Education grants all female employees the right to get a “delivery” leave with full pay for a period of ten weeks, which can be distributed as the employee wishes through the services of the Faris system. The employee begins with a maximum of four weeks before the likely date of delivery that is determined by a medical certificate certified by a health authority.      "faris" 
  • Maternity Leave: The Ministry of Education grants all female employees the right to get a maternity leave represented in the period in which the mother employee is absent from work after giving birth in order to take care of her new child. This service can be obtained through the services of the Fars system.      "faris"​
  • Husband’s Death Leave (Eddah): A woman in the Ministry of Education whose husband dies is entitled to get a leave with full pay for a period of no less than four months and ten days from the date of death. She has the right to extend this leave without pay if she is pregnant, during this period - until she gives birth, This service can be obtained through the services of the Fars system.     "faris"
  • Children’s Hospitality Service Support Program for Women: ​It is a program to support children’s hospitality service for working women “Qura”. The service is an initiative form “Hadaf” which can be obtained through the unified national platform. The program provides support to enable Saudi women to work while being assured of the care provided to their children, by registering them in the children’s hospitality service. ​ Women’s Transportation Support Program “Wusool”:​  It is a program offered through the Wosoul platform, an initiative by the Human Resources Development Fund supported by the Ministry of Labor and Social Development. It aims at finding solutions that reduce the burden of transportation costs for female workers in the private sector, in order to increase the rate of women’s participation and to support their Job stability, by transporting working women to and from the workplace, in partnership with private taxi routing companies through licensed smart applications.
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