Six Saudi women nominated for chamber of commerce

Sources at the Industrial Chamber Of Commerce in the eastern region of Saudi Arabia said on Monday that six Saudi business women nominated themselves to the membership of the chamber of commerce besides other 47 men competing for 12 seats.

The sources explained that the chamber board for its 15th session agreed to the nomination of 53 persons including 6 women all of them in the "traders list," noting that the number of nominees for the traders group reached 35 and 18 for the industrial group.

Two Saudi women Lama al-Suleiman and Nashawa Taher won on November 30 the industrial trade chamber elections in Jeddah, in the first elections in which Saudi women took part.