沙特女性真正想要什么？更多的人生選擇
Erika Fray
2018-06-19
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拉瑪·阿爾蘇萊曼每天都在數(shù)還有多少天到6月24日，因?yàn)槟翘焖涂梢栽谏程亻_(kāi)車上路了。她是沙特城市吉達(dá)商會(huì)的副會(huì)長(zhǎng)，在國(guó)外有多年駕齡，但兩周前才終于獲得人生中第一張沙特的駕照。她表示，報(bào)名駕校的沙特女同胞們心情復(fù)雜，有喜也有憂。 “這讓人百感交集。”在出席《財(cái)富》雜志最近于倫敦舉辦的全球最具影響力女性峰會(huì)期間，阿爾蘇萊曼這樣表示。她指出，過(guò)去很多年沙特禁止女性開(kāi)車有多種原因，既有安全方面的擔(dān)憂，也因?yàn)閭鹘y(tǒng)觀念里認(rèn)為女性不愿開(kāi)車。“眾多女性努力爭(zhēng)取才有今天的突破……經(jīng)歷了（多年來(lái)）自下而上的不斷推動(dòng)。” 阿爾蘇萊曼還說(shuō)，允許女性駕車的另一個(gè)益處是，國(guó)際社會(huì)討論沙特時(shí)終于可以轉(zhuǎn)向其他話題?！拔曳浅ＯＭ懻撈渌麅?nèi)容，”她說(shuō)，“女性駕駛權(quán)力變成了一種負(fù)擔(dān)。人人都在討論女性開(kāi)車，卻忽略了沙特其他的重要問(wèn)題?！? 阿爾蘇萊曼是沙特女性先驅(qū)，曾兩次當(dāng)選吉達(dá)商會(huì)的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)。2015年沙特首次有女性參加的市政議會(huì)選舉中，她是20名當(dāng)選市議員的女性之一。后來(lái)由于沙特政府制定法規(guī)，要求在市政委員會(huì)會(huì)議上女性座位必須和男性分隔開(kāi)，她辭去了議員職位。阿爾蘇萊曼表示，駕車方面的進(jìn)展最積極影響在于，沙特女性擁有了選擇。 阿爾蘇萊曼表達(dá)了沙特女性的挫敗感，因?yàn)樯程貒?guó)內(nèi)的保守派男士和世界各地的自由派人士都自以為了解沙特女性的需求，主動(dòng)為沙特女性代言，然而往往離實(shí)際很遠(yuǎn)。她指出，大多數(shù)沙特女性仍然更喜歡辦公室里與男性隔開(kāi)，還有很多女同胞蒙上面才覺(jué)得更舒服。她說(shuō)：“都是之前女性無(wú)權(quán)選擇的結(jié)果?！保ㄘ?cái)富中文網(wǎng)） 譯者：Pessy 審稿：夏林 ? |
Lama Al Sulaiman is counting down the days until June 24, the day when she can finally get behind the wheel. The vice chair of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce & Industry in Saudi Arabia, who has long driven outside her country and who received her first-ever Saudi driver’s license two weeks ago, said the mood of fellow women enrolled in driving school has been both happy and frustrated. “It’s very emotional,” she said at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women International Summit in London recently, noting that over the years the rationale for keeping women off the road ranged from safety concerns to the sense that it wasn’t what women wanted. “A lot of women have worked hard to make this happen…there has been a lot of bottom-up struggling” over the years. Al Sulaiman added that another benefit is that the world can finally move on to other conversations about Saudi Arabia. “I’m excited to talk about other things,” she said. “It became a burden. No one wanted to discuss anything that was important about Saudi Arabia except that women can’t drive.” Al Sulaiman, a pioneer who was twice elected to the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and who was one of 20 women to win a spot in her country’s first co-ed municipal elections in 2015—she resigned from her position when Saudi Arabia made regulations that women had to be segregated from men at municipal council meetings—said the driving development is most positive in that it gives Saudi women choice. She expressed frustration that Saudi women are often spoken for by both conservative men in the country who think they know what women need and by liberals around the world who think they know what they want. She noted that the majority of Saudi women still prefer segregated workplaces and that many feel more comfortable having their face covered. “It’s the choices we’ve been missing,” she said. |
