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Saudi women taught to work in new fields From Habib Shaikh (Our correspondent) 24 December 2006 JEDDAH --- In order to increase areas of employment opportunities or women, they are now being trained as cashiers and receptionists, besides other areas covered by the General Organisation for Technical Education and Vocational Training (Gotevot). These training programmes are being carried out in Jeddah, Dammam, the holy city of Madinah, Ahsa, Buraidah, Oniza, Rass and Bekaryia. The focus is mainly on cashiering, retail sales and reception, according to Sharif Jassem Al Abdulwahab, director-general of the joint training administration, who added that the women's training programmes covering these jobs, were being carried in the Kingdom for the first time in accordance with the Labour Ministry's decision to employ women in all jobs in accessory stores. He said that the programme has attracted thousands of Saudi female job seekers. He added that the number of the trainees had exceeded 10,000 and scores others were awaiting their turn. Al Abdulwahab denied the rumours that the trainees will attend practical training in shopping centres and malls. He said that the programme has been designed in a way to give essential training and not practical training. "Another factor to be remembered is that the programme is not linked to the programmes dealing with employment as is the case of the management programmes for males." Umm Khaled, one of the training supervisors for the programme in Dammam, said that about 6,971 trainees have enrolled in the programme. Of the total, 1,242 are in Riyadh, and 2,580 in Jeddah, while there are 615 in Qassim, 1,340 in Dammam, 640 in Madinah and 500 in Ahsa. She said that the management is holding training sessions in the morning and evening to accommodate the largest possible number of candidates. She stressed that the training programme serves as a practical step to break the barrier of women's employment. "The labour market will require thousands of trained women in these three jobs especially if you take into account a city like Dammam, which has lots of investment projects that will generate thousands of job opportunities," Umm Khaled said. +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
