Buying Lingerie in Saudi Arabia
If you are a woman in Saudi Arabia and you need a new bra or a pair of underpants, you have to buy them from a man. Now, the Saudi king says he wants female sales assistants in lingerie stores. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Saudi investment analyst and women’s rights advocate Reem Asaad who lives in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Asaad has spent the past few years calling attention to the problem of “men-as-lingerie-sales-assistants” in Saudi Arabia.
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