Saudi Arabia women can join armed forces in latest widening of rights

Apart from the usual weight and height criteria, female applicants to the military need to have had at least a high school education.

Women in Saudi Arabia can now take up arms and enter the military, the latest profession in the kingdom to open up to female recruits.
 
Saudi Arabian women can be employed as soldiers, lance corporals, corporals, sergeants, and staff sergeants, according to the Saudi-based Arab News.
 
Jobs have been gradually opening up for Saudi women, whose increased participation in the workforce is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plans to transform the Arab world’s largest economy. It is now common to see Saudi women working as cashiers in shopping malls and taking up roles that were previously