RIYADH — With 106,000 unemployed Saudi women actively seeking employment, 65 percent of them holding university degrees, Deputy Minister of Labor Abdul Wahim Al-Homaid said recently that the private sector should act more quickly to find places for these qualified workers. Al-Homaid also conceded that a proposal to place Saudi women in shops selling lingerie and other products targeting women (to replace expatriate men) has been a failure so far.
