Saudi Arabia ends travel restriction on women

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The landmark reform erodes the longstanding guardianship system that renders adult women as legal minors and allows their "guardians" - husband, father and other male relatives - to exercise arbitrary authority over them.

Women in the kingdom have long required permission from their male "guardians" to marry, renew their passports or exit the country.

reforms include the much-celebrated decision last year allowing women to drive, as well as allowing women to attend soccer games alongside men and to take on jobs that once fell outside the narrow confines of traditional gender roles.

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