You’ll be glad to know that you now live in a world where there are no world bans on women driving in any country, and yes, that includes Saudi Arabia.
Because of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s move wide-ranging movement to modernize the country where most now available women rights are nowhere to be seen, now women can take their cars and drive to wherever they want, no male chaperon needed.
This is big!! Even though some are looking at the glass half empty (and saying how can we be happy if women are still oppressed in so many different other ways and denied so many other rights) here at The Daily Crisp we choose to look at it glass half full and see this as just the beginning of something historic.
Seeing as how driving was (and sometimes still is) a male-dominated activity, here is a list of the very first women who were badass enough to beat all the odds and do something that was primarily dominated by the male gender.
First Egyptian Female Pilot: Lotfia Elnadi, was the first Egyptian woman as well as the first woman from it the Arab world to earn a pilot’s license.