5.6: Women's progress measures

Women's Empowerment

The Women Empowerment Agency was established in April 2019, with the initiative “Empowering women in the civil service and enhancing their leadership role” in the public sector and lately, the private sector, in an effort to achieve the goal of increasing women's participation in the Saudi labor market.

Agency's Mission:

The Women Empowerment Agency seeks to create initiatives and projects that support the empowerment of women and people with disabilities in the Saudi labor market and work to implement them in order to achieve the goal of increasing women's participation in the labor market in order to achieve justice in equal opportunities in the labor market.

Agency's Objectives:

1. Legislations and policies that support the empowerment of women and people with disabilities.

2. Human resource practices and procedures that achieve equal opportunities for both sexes.

3. Development of promising women leaders and cadres with disabilities.

4. Promote a positive mental image about the work of women and people with disabilities.

5. Spreading the culture of diversity, inclusiveness and inclusion in the labor market (women - people with disabilities).

Agency's Initiatives:

1. Support inclusiveness and diversity in the labor market (women - people with disabilities).

2. Combating discrimination in the labor market.

3. Stimulating and supporting gender balance in the labor market.

4. Encouraging career development (women - people with disabilities).

5. Reducing regulatory restrictions that hinder women from working in the labor market.

Agency's Programs and Projects:

• The National Women Leadership Platform project.

• Project to achieve gender balance

• The initiative to support beauty centers

• Women in Boards Project

• The Council of Chambers' agreement with the Women Empowerment Agency to support women empowerment projects

• The initiative to localize the children's hospitality sector

• Experience of establishing a children's hospitality center

• Training and leadership mentoring initiative for women cadres

KAU applies and aligns the government's policies and procedures, as well as its projects, including WOMEN's empowering projects and activities.

To support Gender Equality, KAU is providing efforts to:

1. provide access to various types of educational resources for its FEMALE students.

2. dedicate huge efforts to support the public community through different types of educational lectures, activities and events that would raise the community awareness and information. 

3. establish various deanships, centers and units, that have been providing efforts to support WOMEN presentation in under-represented groups.