One of the biggest retailers in Saudi Arabia has taken on more than 700 Saudi women for its lingerie shops this year and wants half the workforce to be female within two years.
Fawaz Alhokair Group, based in Riyadh, operates more than 1,000 stores across the Middle East and plans to employ 3,000 Saudi women in the kingdom.
"We have recently employed over 700 Saudi women through the conversion of our lingerie stores into woman-only working environments," said Simon Marshall, the chief executive of Fawaz Alhokair. "We have also converted some of our head office roles.
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