I spent seven years in Saudi Arabia, living amongst the Arabs and not in a special Western Compound. I was virtually adopted by an Arabic family. Women are allowed to see doctors. The wearing of the veil is not compulsory. Women are educated in the many girls' schools.
Women attend university.
There are women's welfare organisations. I do not know from where he finds his ideas. Most of the trouble in the Arab World stems from Margaret Thatcher's failure to act when requested to do so by Prince Saud Al Faisal and King Hussein of Jordan. There was more political mileage in pretending that she was a strong influence during the Reagan-Gorbachev period. Mad Margaret should have sent Lord Carrington to the Middle East.