One article I posted on my Diigo account is entitled “How Women in Saudi Arabia Lived Under King Abdullah”. This article discusses the struggle women faced during Abdullah’s reign, including their struggle to find meaningful employment and the lack of female figures in politics.  The second article I posted on my Diigo account is titled “Did Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Have a Soft Sport for Women’s Progress?” This article discusses both the subtle and not so subtle changes that were made for women’s rights during Kind Abdullah’s reign. An important change that was made is an increase in employment for women. Both of these articles have a focus during the same time period, King Abdullah’s reign and shortly after. Both articles suggest a problem with employment but the second takes a more positive outlook than the first. Although women still struggle to find careers in the legal system, as pointed out in the first article, women’s employment has skyrocketed from 50,000 to over 450,000 in a mere five year span. Change in Saudi Arabian women’s rights is slow but there is progress. However, it seems that the government is merely trying to give women enough to tide them over without giving them any real power to make legal changes. This is likely why women are being employed in new areas such as lingerie stores but still struggle to find work in politics. In class we have discussed many kings and rulers, many of which promise and state what they can’t achieve. I think that King Abdullah did what he could to maintain his promise to women. There are many mixed articles so it is hard to know what to believe but under his rule women saw advances that had never been seen in Saudi Arabia including allowing women to work in lingerie stores.