@madison_clough raises an excellent point in her @arabnews piece on women, e-commerce: #Covid19 provides a powerful opportunity for Saudi and other GCC women to expand their online business. Women, she notes, already own nearly 50% of Saudi online shops https://arab.news/4h43j ">https://arab.news/4h43j&quo...

The consequences of Gulf women using online commerce is an issue that many of us have been following for a while. This series of essays on female space in Arabia from 2016--based on a 2015 MESA panel--includes my essay on gender/e-commerce in #SaudiArabia https://bit.ly/2Viao8O ">https://bit.ly/2Viao8O&q...

It suggests that #Covid19 could accelerate changing gender trends in employment in #Saudi, Gulf highlighted by Namie Tsujigami and others. Indeed, I titled a chapter in "The Arab Gulf States"--my 2010 book on the Gulf --"When only Women Will Work."

Again, @madison_clough& #39;s makes an excellent point about technology and labor markets in Saudi/Gulf--one that will be critical during the #COVID19Pandemic, when mobility is severely limited in many Saudi cities, and along with the restructuring that will follow it. /end thread.