“Female Saudi graduates have significantly outnumbered Saudi men in the national on-the-job training programme launched by the Human Resources Development Fund (Hadaf). Hadaf said 74 per cent of 61,000 participants – who have benefited from Tamheer, a three to six-month on-the-job training scheme for Saudi graduates, since its launch in 2017 – were female. Most of the participants were from Makkah, Riyadh and the Eastern Province. The number of women with jobs in Saudi Arabia has nearly doubled in the last five years and now stands at more than 35 per cent of the workforce.”
