Saudi Aramco look to bridge the energy industry’s gender gap through the creation of Women’s Business Park.
The firm has committed to training and employing close to 20,000 women over the next 10 years.
The business park will be developed in conjunction with Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University (PNU) and Wipro Arabia. It will include 320,000 square meters of office space on the PNU campus, entrepreneur incubators, daycare centers, a family mall, fragmented retail shops, and be a one-stop shop coordination center for government transactions. It will also provide services in information technology, business process outsourcing and engineering services outsourcing.
About 60% of college graduates in Saudi Arabia are women. About 3,000 new graduates from PNU are expected to enrol in the site’s programme which aims to provide a transition from formal education to full-time employment.