More than 480,000 Saudi women have joined the employment market in just four years, specifically from the end of the second quarter of 2020 until the same period in 2024. This figure shows an average of 328 Saudi women entered the labor market on a daily basis for four years in a row. This coincided with a sharp decline in the unemployment rate of Saudi women, falling from 31.4 percent to 12.8 percent. This was revealed in a monitoring carried out by Okaz daily on the basis of the government data collected from the announcements of the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI), the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD), and the National Labor Observatory. According to the monitoring, the total number of Saudi women working and registered in GOSI crossed 1.09 million by the end of the first half of 2024 while the number of Saudi female employees registered in social insurance by the end of the same period in 2020 was about 652000. The rate of increase of Saudi female employees accounted for about 78.25 percent of the total number of female employees over four years, in a strong increase […]