May 17 - Kuwaiti women are granted the right to vote.

Kuwaiti women voted and ran in a public election for the first time.

Kuwaiti women had achieved, de facto, everything there was to achieve in the professional world.

Most obtain nationality by marrying Kuwaiti women.

In April 2001, the parliament banned Kuwaiti women from playing soccer.

Kuwaiti women are also police officers, royal guards, special forces officers, and immigration officers.

A Kuwaiti woman has been sentenced to death for starting a fire that killed 57 women and children at the wedding party of her husband who married another wife.

Kuwaiti women have been putting out their own newsletter, called Kuwaitein.

At this moment in Kuwait we have three positions of under-secretary, which is the number two position after the minister, who are Kuwaiti women.

Some Kuwaiti women have been pressing for the right to vote and serve in Parliament, which will almost certainly be opposed by religious factions.