Bloomberg Businessweek quotes Rafik Hariri Center Associate Director Stefanie Hausheer Ali on the evolving role of women in Saudi Arabian society:
The bottom line is a woman’s place can no longer be at home if the menfolk want to maintain the living standards they’re accustomed to. “It’s getting to the point where they need two incomes if they want to live in a certain way,” says Stefanie Hausheer Ali, associate director at Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East in Washington. “In 15 years, we’re going to see more of this shift.”