1) Women cannot apply for a passport or travel outside the country without their male guardian’s approval, restrictions the Interior Ministry imposes and enforces. In practice, some women are prevented from leaving their homes without their guardian’s permission and guardians can seek a court order for a woman to return to the family home.
2) Saudi authorities limit a woman’s ability to enter freely into marriage by requiring her to obtain the permission of a male guardian. A woman’s consent is generally given orally before a religious official officiating for the marriage, and both the woman and her male guardian are required to sign the marriage contract. Whereas men can marry up to four wives at a time. Saudi law has no minimum marriage age, and Saudi media outlets continue to carry occasional reports of child marriages, including rare reports of girls as young as 8.
2 examples of that is that Saudi Arabian woman were only granted the right to drive 2 years ago another example of this is Women in Saudi Arabia can travel abroad without a male guardian's permission, royal decrees say. The new rule announced on that was announced not that long ago allows women over the age of 21 to apply for a passport without authorisation, putting them on an equal footing to men, which they should have been since the beggining
