In the G20 meeting of 2019, Saudi Arabia participated in the women empowerment initiative that aims at reducing the pay ap between male and female as well as supporting women's participation in small business. In 2020, Saudi Arabia was ranked as a top reformer on women's rights atwork. The World Bank’s “Women, Business and the Law 2020” study, which tracks how laws affect women in 190 economies, scored Saudi Arabia’s economy 70.6 points out of 100, a dramatic increase from its previous score of 31.8 points. Saudi Arabia was the country to make “the biggest improvement globally” since 2017 according to the World Bank press release, including advances n women’s mobility, sexual harassment, retirement age and economic activity. The study found the Kingdom enacted reforms n six out of eight indicators associated with women’s economic empowerment, from June 2017 to September 2019. “Saudi Arabia basically has become one of the leaders in the Arab world in terms of women empowerment,” World Bank’s Regional director for the GCC Issam Abu Sulaiman said, according to the Saudi Press Agency. twenty-nineteen (2019) was a year of “groundbreaking” reforms that allowed women greater economic opportunity in Saudi Arabia, according to the study’s findings. Amendments were adopted to protect women from discrimination in employment, to prohibit employers from dismissing a woman during her pregnancy and maternity leave, and to prohibit gender-based discrimination in accessing financial services.

Saudi Arabia “also equalized the retirement age for women and men at 60 years, extending women’s working lives, earnings, and contributions.” Under the study’s mobility indicator, which measures a woman’s freedom of movement, Saudi Arabia also made significant strides due to changes in guardianship laws. In August 2019 it was announced Saudi Arabian women above 1 would no longer need permission from a male guardian to travel abroad or obtain a passport. Princess Reema bint Bandar, Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the US and the first Saudi female ambassador, said at the time the new developments for women were “history in the making.” he Saudi Arabian ministry of education has a specialized center for educational Statistics and Decision Support Center. The enter collects and provides documented data and accurate updated statistics on education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a nd publishes them in an appropriate time frame, to facilitate the mechanism of decision-making and policy-making, and to develop strategic plans for education. UM uses these statistics to create long term strategic goals to achieve the university vision and mission, for example according to female admission statistics the university established their 2020-2025 operational plan in page 6 one of the initiated actions was " Enabling outstanding women cadres" in order to achieve their strategic goal 1 " Enhance governance of the administrative system". These statistics are also used to influence intake specified by each program to encourage female admission rate and gender equality.