When I moved to Saudi Arabia in 2007, I knew that females were not allowed to drive in this country.  In fact, this kingdom is the only country in the entire world that does not allow women to drive.  In 1990 a caravan of 40 Saudi women drove in the country’s capital city of Riyadh in an organized effort to defy the ban on women driving.  Their lives were affected in a myriad of adverse ways after that.  Among other things, they were banned from traveling outside the kingdom for many years and they lost their jobs.  Susie of Arabia Defying the Women’s Driving Ban