Saudi Arabia s industrial sector is remarkably undergoing fundamental changes and currently seeing its historic ‘golden age’, Saudi Press Agency reported, citing Bandar Alkhorayef, Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources.
Work is underway to improve the industrial sector s environment, with the aim of achieving the aspirations and objectives of Vision 2030, which include more participation by women in the development process, as well as creating more opportunities in such a vital sector, said Alkhorayef, who also chairs the Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones (MODON).
The minister also indicated that the factories of the present and the future are different from those of the past, as they are now more open for creative work rather than routine, especially amid the expanding role of technology that continues to take over more businesses.
This year alone, it has been revealed that there has been a 120 per cent increase in female employees in the Kingdom.
Per the Saudi Press Agency, it was recorded by the Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technical Zones (MODON) that 17,000 Saudi women were working in industries by March of this year, meaning that is a 120 per cent increase year on year.
Discussing the achievement, Khalid Al-Salem, director-general of MODON, highlighted that the empowerment of women was at the forefront of the authority’s vision.
“MODON continues to empower women both as an employee and as an investor by creating a model environment in partnership with the public and private sectors,” he said.