“To encourage women’s involvement in sports, the Ministry of Education issued a decision in 2017 to implement sports classes in girls’ schools, which public schools lacked in the past. All these reforms helped skyrocket women’s participation in sports by 150 percent from 2015 to 2019. Today, the Kingdom has more than six thousand female athletes and twenty-seven women’s sports teams.” 

-Lujain Alotaibi, project coordinator at King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies. Saudi Arabia lost at the 2022 World Cup. But its sports sector is winning. [Atlantic Council]