History of Bahraini Women

  • 1926 | Participation in Municipal Elections

  • 1928 | Start of Women’s Public Education

  • 1937 | First Cohort of Scholarship Students to Study Abroad

  • 1941 | Nursing

  • 1953 | Participation in Volunteer Work

  • 1954 | Journalism

  • 1968 | Banking and Finance

  • 1970 | Judicial and Legal Field

  • 1970 | Military

  • 1972 | Diplomacy

  • 1976 | Sports

  • 1977 | Engineering

  • 1998 | First General Manager of a Bank

  • 1999 | First female notary

  • 1999 | First Bahraini female ambassador

  • 2000 | Participation of (6) women in the Committee Drafting the National Action Charter

  • 2001 | The establishing the Supreme Council for Women