Women also started to campaign recently saying that while the idea of Saudi women working as maids is rejected, other jobs are not given to them. Another campaign is by Dalal Al-Batti, a beauty specialist, who along with 100 beauty centers, called for increased Saudization of this sector.

One of the most famous campaigns launched recently and called "Her Dream," is directed against the unemployment of women. The campaign has a website and it lists a number of jobs available in different regions. Each member can write her story about her fruitless effort to find work.

One of the stories written by a girl in Makkah describes traveling to Taif after she heard that there was a teaching job there. She waited from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. for an interview before she was turned down for not having proof of residency.

She then traveled to Jeddah after she read that there was a job opening. She was among a large group of women applying for the job. An official at the school took a microphone and shouted to get them out because there was no job opening.

She decided to apply for a master's degree program instead of waiting for a job that may not come. She applied at King Abdulaziz University. Five out of 200 students that applied were accepted; she was not one of them.

She was left with no choice but to work for a charity school in a village outside Jeddah just to gain experience. She was told that if she had some experience in teaching her chances of getting a job would be much better. After one year of working for free at the school, she applied again at the Education Department but was told the experience would not be counted because the charity school was not recognized.

The website contains a large number of stories from all over the Kingdom of people that went through great deal of suffering in their search for work. Some settled in low-paying jobs. There are stories of people who have been unemployed for more than 17 years. One of the members said that she joined the website because she feels pain and injustice. She believes that she is a non-productive member of society.

A group of unemployed women from this website visited local lawyer Samir Al-Khalaf to file a lawsuit against a number of government departments for their unjustified bureaucracy in employing women. He offered to take the case for free and demanded that each unemployed woman complete her file with the full story, a copy of legal representation, a copy of the educational certificates and a copy of their ID.

He said that only a limited number of the women responded. After ten months from his offer to take the case for free, only 14 files were received and three of those files, according to the lawyer, were incomplete. To him, this is not enough.

“Some of the women feared that if they file a lawsuit it would affect their prospect of getting jobs in the government sector," he said. "I tried to motivate the women to file the lawsuit but they and their families were saying that it was a lost cause. They were totally ignorant of their right to file a lawsuit.”

He said that he still hopes that more serious unemployed women will come forward. His doors is open to all those who have legal issues, he added.

A website that has also attracted the attention of many unemployed is "Unemployment Solutions," which discusses different issues related to unemployment and lists different job opportunities in the private or public sectors, including job offers for disabled people.