TAIF: The Jeddah Mayoralty has responded to an Internet campaign to replace male staff with females at shops offering goods or services for women by instructing that licenses be “issued quickly” for such stores that meet the set conditions. The campaign – loosely translated as “Enough of the Impasse” – began around one month ago to try and bring the decision to employ women and create jobs for them at the relevant stores into effect on the ground. Talal Al-Ghanim, head of the campaign's media committee which had already held a meeting of businesspeople at Jeddah's Chamber of Commerce and Industry, met with mayoralty licensing head Bashir Abu Najm, who gave his full support by instructing the “swift issuing of licenses” for outlets that wish to employ women. “The conditions that must be complied with require that the shop be detached from other shops, that it has a single entrance, that it be located on a main street, and that the shop front permits no one to see the interior from outside,” the committee said. “The site must also have a proper female security presence to prevent males entering, and prominent notices saying that it is a women-only site.” The committee reiterated that the Jeddah mayoralty has permitted women to open cafes, restaurants, computer stores and clothes shops on the condition that they are run and staffed solely by women.