In 1983, Lubna Olayan became the first woman to work for her father’s business — Olayan Financing Company (OFC), a sprawling multinational conglomerate based in Saudi Arabia.
OFC now employs some 400 Saudi women — including 56 who bustle alongside Olayan and their male colleagues in the Riyadh head office — showing how far the company and Saudi society have come since then in bringing women greater economic power. Read more