Open AccessSaudi Women Moving into Banking
Author(s) -
Douglas K. Martin
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.1474
Subject(s) - business , spring (device) , control (management) , demographic economics , economics , management , engineering , mechanical engineering
Saudi women have an estimated 30 to 40% of the hundreds of billions of dollars of private wealth in Saudi Arabia and the Koran guarantees them personal control of it. As a result, banks run by women and catering solely to women have begun to spring up in major cities.