We do not have cafés strictly for women in our cities. I suggest that the Ministry of Labor grant licenses to women who want to start such businesses and allow them to employ female expatriate workers to do menial jobs like cleaning. Doing so will meet two main social objectives. Firstly, women living in the same neighborhood where the café is located will be able to find work there and spare themselves the trouble of looking for transportation to get to work. Secondly, many Saudi women, especially housewives, spend a great deal of their day sleeping, doing house chores and chatting on the phone. I am sure that women will be more than glad to work in a café for women near their homes where they can meet other women during the day or the evening. Besides, many housewives will be interested in spending their time at the café instead of at home. If a housewife has a lot of free time, she can spend it at the café. In fact, there are already places where women can go and meet one another, but most women cannot afford these places because they are expensive. I call on the Saudi Credit and Savings Bank, businessmen, and businesswomen who support new ideas to think about funding such projects. If they do so, they will help people, especially women in large cities, find an alternative to their monotonous and boring routines. A large number of women in our society work alongside men. However, an even larger number of women are stay-at-home mothers who were not lucky enough to enroll at university or college after high school or have not even finished their high school studies. Those women have a lot of free time during certain days of the week and they do not know how to use this time effectively. Of course, some housewives do not have any free time because they have to attend to their husbands' and children's needs all the time.
