Women in Saudi Arabia will no longer need to use separate entrances from men or sit behind partitions at restaurants.
It is the latest measure announced by the government that upends a major hallmark of conservative restrictions that had been in place for decades.
Across Saudi Arabia, the norm has been that unrelated men and women are not permitted to mix in public. Government-run schools and most public universities remain segregated, as are most Saudi weddings. Many also have separate entrances for women and partitions or rooms for families where women are not visible to single men. In smaller restaurants or cafes with no space for segregation, women are not allowed in.
He also curtailed the powers of the country's religious police, who had been enforcers of conservative social norms, like gender segregation in public.Two years ago, women for the first time were allowed to attend sports events in stadiums in the so-called"family" sections. Young girls in recent years have also been allowed access to physical education and sports in school, a right that only boys had been afforded.
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