ON SEPTEMBER 25th Saudi Arabia, the world’s seventh least-democratic country according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, our sister company, announced that from 2015 it would allow women to vote and stand in municipal elections. Women have a particularly hard time in Saudi Arabia, which was the last country with some elections to deny women the vote. They must seek permission from a male guardian (often their husband or father, but sometimes their son) before they work, travel and marry, and they are not allowed to …
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