RIYADH: No country in the world has been able to keep up with Saudi Arabia’s remarkable strides in female labor force participation, a top executive at the World Bank has claimed.
Speaking to Arab News, Safaa El-Kogali flagged that the share of women in the Kingdom’s workforce now stands at 36 percent – up from just over 17 percent in 2017.
The country director for the Gulf Cooperation Council at the World Bank attributed the rise to factors within the Vision 2030 initiative aimed at diversifying the Saudi economy away from oil.
“No country was able to achieve growth in female…
