Women in business
Aramco is committed to boosting the number of women in our workforce. We have created several initiatives to enhance women’s representation, creating our own supply of talent through programs such as sponsored college degrees and university outreach.
We are also creating more opportunities for women to expand their skill sets through education, development, and challenging assignments. Guided by the latest research in work motivation, engagement, career development, coaching, emotional intelligence, and women in leadership, our suite of business and management skills development programs are designed to support women throughout their careers.
We collaborate with local universities to leverage their engineering programs, identifying highly-qualified female candidates in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) for opportunities within our company. We also sponsor young Saudi women pursuing degrees in STEM subjects through various training institutes, academies, and a university scholarship program.
Today, our female employees include engineers working in the field and in plants, scientists in our R&D Centers conducting innovative research, inventors developing new processes and products, and traders selling products to customers around the world.
To discover more about the progress we’re making in supporting women joining Aramco’s workforce, please click here.
Women's driving schools
In 2018, we established the first driving school for women, located in Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran, in collaboration with the Saudi Arabian Traffic Police Authority.
We currently operate two driving schools for women, The Saudi Aramco Driving Center (SADC) in Dhahran and The Eastern Province Driving Academy situated in Al-Hasa. The women trained at the Driving Center aren’t just good drivers, they also demonstrate safe driving for the rest of the Kingdom. The Centers are managed by qualified Saudi women, and they train both Saudi Aramco’s female employees and Saudi women from the wider population, improving their mobility and enhancing their quality of life.
