Frayyan, Director of the General Administration of Businesswomen's Affairs at the Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce, has revealed that the council plans to open new female branches in various regions of the Kingdom, among them Najran. Al-Frayyan said the council was also working to improve existing women's sections, and that the 25 chambers of commerce in the Kingdom were providing figures to reveal the number of businesswomen registered with them. Those chambers that had not yet opened female sections, she added, were being urged to do so. According to Al-Frayyan 15 chambers currently have women's sections or female representation, having increased from ten over the past year. Al-Frayyan said the General Administration of Businesswomen's Affairs at the Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce was also in the process of forming an information committee to streamline communications. A recent meeting for female directors of women's sections in the chambers discussed with authorities ways to confront challenges facing dressmaking workshops in terms of organization and procedures in the light of the merger of dressmaking workshop and beauty salon activities. Al-Frayyan said that there were contradictions in existing regulations, such as the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation training women in the beauty profession while the Ministry of Labor fails to include the profession of beautician in its list of occupations. The Council of Chambers of Commerce, she said, highlights such discrepancies and works to enforce rulings. “The meeting of female directors of all chambers' women's branches said it was particularly important to address the problems facing dressmaking workshops since statistics show that about 75 percent of women's commercial activities in the Kingdom are in dressmaking workshops and beauty salons,” Al
