Lancaster University Management School - 54 Degrees Issue 12

6 | In Saudi Arabia, women entrepreneurs are using their positions to a ff ect social change. Over the last decade, Dr SophieAlkhaled has spoken to businesswomen fromthe Gulf State and discovered they have increasingly foundways to individuallymake quiet inroads into politics and activism, without ever coming together as a formal movement. Women’s Entrepreneurship asPoliticalActivi inDisguise