I think this is seen all around the world in many unmarried women who feel that with their higher education they can make it on their own and have careers that they enjoy. However, I don't think any of these women want to be called spinsters. That's such an old-fashioned word for an unmarried woman.
Saudi spinsters: A new generation of women are breaking with tradition and making their own choices on education, careers - and even marriage
The trend has ruffled ultra-conservatives who see it as an affront to the very foundations of the notoriously strict kingdom
AYA BATRAWY
JEDDAH
Wednesday 21 January 2015
Amna Fatani knows she wants a brilliant career and a life different from that of Saudi women of her mother’s generation who married early, usually to a husband not of their own choosing.
The 27-year-old, studying for her master’s degree at Georgetown University in Washington and hoping to someday become Saudi Arabia’s first female labour minister, is part of a growing number of Saudi women choosing to remain single through their twenties and into their thirties as they pursue other ambitions.
Continue reading at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-spinsters-a-new-genera
Saudi spinsters: A new generation of women are breaking with tradition and making their own choices on education, careers - and even marriage
The trend has ruffled ultra-conservatives who see it as an affront to the very foundations of the notoriously strict kingdom
AYA BATRAWY
JEDDAH
Wednesday 21 January 2015
Amna Fatani knows she wants a brilliant career and a life different from that of Saudi women of her mother’s generation who married early, usually to a husband not of their own choosing.
The 27-year-old, studying for her master’s degree at Georgetown University in Washington and hoping to someday become Saudi Arabia’s first female labour minister, is part of a growing number of Saudi women choosing to remain single through their twenties and into their thirties as they pursue other ambitions.
Continue reading at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-spinsters-a-new-genera
