Many tech feminists (such as myself) like to mock Vivek Wadhwa as “The Guy Who Gets Paid to Talk About Women in Tech,” but what he does is a serious problem that hurts women in tech in tangible ways. By appointing himself the unwanted spokesman for women in tech he has kept actual, qualified women’s voices from being heard widely in the mainstream media.
From what I can tell, in Saudi Arabia, Sharia law means: whatever the court feels like forcing people into doing. If the judge is in a nasty mood, the sentence simply shifts from an absurd amount of whipping to beheading.