When Rawan al-Harbi graduated in 2017, she had expected to end up working in the female-dominated education sector. Instead, she found an opening at Johnson Controls Arabia, an air-conditioning plant in King Abdullah Economic City, 100km to the north of Jeddah.
“At the beginning it was a bit hard. It’s a far-out location and everything is new,” the 29-year-old said on the factory floor. “But I got used to it.”
Today she is one of more than a dozen Saudi women working in the electrical and control department, sitting on workbenches across the room from male colleagues.
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