Saudi Arabia to allow women into ’family sections’ at sports stadia as reforms continue

Saudi Arabia will allow women into sports stadiums from next year, in conservative kingdom’s latest step towards easing gender segregation rules.

Saudi Arabia to allow women into ’family sections’ at sports stadia as reforms continue

Saudi Arabia will allow women into sports stadiums from next year, in conservative kingdom’s latest step towards easing gender segregation rules.

But they will be seated in the so-called family section, an area separate from the male-only crowd.

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