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Saudi Arabia adopts landmark changes for women, including an end to travel restrictionsBy Nabih BulosStaff WriterConsider the life of a woman in Saudi Arabia.By law, her husband, father or other male relative controls where she works and where she travels. She can’t get her own passport or register her marriage — or divorce — or even the birth of her own child.Those days will soon be over.On Friday, buried within the dull legalese of a weekly gazette published by the Saudi government, much of the kingdom’s wilayah, or guardianship, system was abolished, heralding a new era for women in a society that has long viewed them as legal minors.Read more at: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-08-02/saudi-women-travel-guardianship
