[Livia]

How patronising. During WW2 women in the UK and USA ran the countries virtually while the male workforce were away fighting. They drove buses, trains, lorries, made up almost the entire workforce in factories that made tanks, guns, ammo, bombs, aeroplanes, flew the planes (althought not in combat), helped build ships, worked in foundries, worked the farms. dug the road, cleared bomb sites, in fact, everything a man would have done, because they had to and they made a bloody excellent job of it. Sixty years later the Saudis are considering whether women are capable of putting things in tins, push a broom and go for a pee on their own.