What is the biggest challenge facing women in Saudi Arabia? Scholar and activist Dr. Hala Al-Dosari, a former fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Washington Post, explains "The largest challenge is...the political identity imposed by the state. So the state vision for women to be always dependent, to be always nurtured and provided for by a man to access anything through a man, that is the most difficult challenge, because this political identity really reduces the power of women, not only as part of their family, not as mothers or as wives, because you don't want mothers and wives who are dependent. But as well as individuals who are needed in the workforce."

This interview is from the FPA archives.