“In the past six years, government reforms have also clarified which industries are open to women and what kinds of hours women can work, criminalized sexual harassment, guaranteed equal pay and retirement benefits, and prohibited employers from terminating pregnant workers. The net effect has been an unprecedented increase in the economic opportunities available to women across Saudi society: the number of women employed in the private sector is now eight times what it was a dozen years ago, with much of the rise driven by women with high school diplomas.” Jennifer Peck, Working Women Are Changing Saudi Arabia, [Foreign Affairs]