write a few lines on the comparison of the live of women in Saudi Arabia and in India
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During the late 20th and early 21st centuries, women's rights in Saudi Arabia have been limited in comparison to the rights of women in many of its neighboring countries due to Saudi Arabia's strict interpretation of sharia law. However, since Mohammed bin Salman was appointed Crown Prince in 2017, a series of social and economic reforms have been witnessed regarding women's rights. In the 2021 World Bank's Women, Business, and the Law index, Saudi Arabia scored 80 out of 100, which puts it ahead of the global average score.[5][6] However, in the 2021 World Economic Forum's global gender gap report, the kingdom was ranked 147th out of 156 countries.[7] The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) elected Saudi Arabia to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women for 2018–2022, in a move that was widely criticised by the international community.[8][9] Female literacy rate is estimated to be 93%.[10] Women in Saudi Arabia constituted 33.2% of the native workforce as of 2020,[11] ahead from 13% of the country's native workforce in 2015.[12][13] The Saudi law ensures equal pay for women and men in the private sector.[14][15]
Women's rights in Saudi Arabia
General Statistics
Maternal mortality (per 100,000)
12 (2015)[1]
Women in parliament
19.9% (2016)
Women over 25 with secondary education
72.8% (2017)
Women in labour force
33.2% in 2019[2]
Gender Inequality Index[3]
Value
0.284 (2014)
Rank
39th out of 188
Global Gender Gap Index[4]
Value
0.603 (2021)
Rank
147th
Among the factors that define rights for women in Saudi Arabia are government laws, the Hanbali and Wahhabi schools of Sunni Islam, and traditional customs of the Arabian Peninsula.[16] Women campaigned for their rights with the women to drive movement[17] and the anti male-guardianship campaign,[18][19] which resulted in improvements to their status during the second decade of the twenty-first century.