This is ETIHAD AIRWAYS Airbus A380 for a roundtrip from Abu Dhabi to Paris CDG. In this Etihad Flight First officer, Shaima is a UAE citizen which indicates that women in the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia are becoming more involved in creative activities of the social setting

This was the middle of 1984 when a disagreement had started between PIA, Pakistan International Airline, and Gulf Air for landing rights into Pakistan multiple Pakistani Airports. The Gulf Air owned by Bahrain but presumed to be the flag carrier of Gulf states except for Kuwait yet, PIA a foreign airline could operate into Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Bahrain, and Doh on contrary, Gulf Air was probably only allowed with landing rights into one Pakistani Airport, the Karachi.  Gulf Air was demanding landing rights into four more airports, Lahore, Islamabad, Quetta, and Peshawer but Pakistani refuse to go by reciprocity claiming that Gulf Air is also foreign to the other Gulf States. 

To counter Gulf Air, Pakistani instigated UAE, why not start their own flag carrier and sold them their own AirBus. This was the beginning of Emirates Airline in 1985 but they had struggled and it was difficult to grow a new Airline in a very competing market. I was told that someone had advised them that Pakistani had cheated you just to counter the Gulf Air, and it is not their job to run a successful air. The UAE govt brought in some British experts who turned Emirates into a fast-growing airline in the region. Today there are half a dozen airlines operating very successfully owned by the public or private sector of the UAE states.

Emirates had started in 1985, now the largest Airline in the Middle East, Etihad Airways started in 2003,  Air Arabia also started in 2003, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi in 2020, FlyDubai started in 2008, Wizz Air Abu Dhabi in 2019.

In this Etihad Flight First officer, Shaima is a UAE citizen which indicates that women in the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia are becoming more involved in creative activities of the social setting. Though this is wrong to presume that women, there were not part of outside life. Even Badawi women in desserts are equally active along with their men for centries as the men themselves. The hijab and seclusion came into the city life with a new industrial culture, not through its own evolutionary process of its own social settings.

The timeline of the first woman in the world to fly is as follows:  

June 4, 1784: Marie Elisabeth Thible of France the first woman to fly in a hot-air balloon.

1799: Labrosse becomes the first woman to parachute jump.

March 8, 1909: Raymonde de Laroche of France becomes the world's first woman to earn a pilot’s license. 

September 3, 1910: Helene Detrieu of Belgium is the first woman in the world to fly with a passenger. 

September 10, 1910:  Bessie Raiche of United States is credited with the first solo airplane flight by a woman in The United States.

November 25, 1910: Helene Detrieu becomes the first  Belgium woman and the fourth worldwide to earn a pilot's license.

December 7, 1910: Jeanne Herveu of France becomes the world's fifth woman to earn a pilot's license (French Licence No. 318).

1933:  Bedriye Tahir Gokmenis the first Turkish woman to earn her pilot's license.

1933: Lotfia Elnadi becomes the first Arab woman, first African woman, and the first woman in Egypt to earn a pilot's license.

1936: Saria Thakral becomes the first Indian woman to earn her private pilot's license.

1937: Sabiha Gokcen of Turkey is the first woman combat pilot.

1940: Effat Tejaratchi becomes the first Iranian woman to earn her pilot's license.

1949: Josephine Samaan Ibrahim Haddad, became the first Iraqi, Assyrian woman to earn the rank of captain and pilot an aircraft in Baghdad Iraq.

1951: Touria Chaoui is the first woman from Morocco to earn her pilot's license.

1951: Myriam Ben is the first Algerian woman to earn a pilot's license.

1956: Betty Greene is the first woman to fly in Sudan, having had to obtain a special dispensation from the Sudanese Parliament before a woman allowed to fly.

1960: Alia Menchari becomes the first woman Tunisian pilot.

9 September 1976 Asli Hassan Abade soloes her first flight as the only female pilot in the Somali Air Force.

1978: Chinyere Kalu, (née Onyenucheya) becomes Nigeria’s first female pilot.

1980: Lynn Rippelmeyer is the first woman to fly a Boeing 747.

2001: Roni Zuckerman becomes the first Israeli woman to qualify as a fighter pilot.

2003: Ayesha Farooq becomes Pakistan’s first "war-ready female fighter pilot.

2005: Hanadi Zakaria Al-Hindi becomes the first woman in Saudi Arabia to earn her pilot's license.

2014: Saudi Arabia allows their first woman pilot, Hanadi Al-Hindi, to fly in Saudi airspace.

2014: Mariam al-Mansuri is the United Arab Emirates ' first female fighter pilot, flying F16 in combat missions against ISIS in Syria 2014.

June 18, 2016: The first female Indian fighter Pilots graduated. These include Bhawana Kanth,  Avani Chaturvedi, and Mohana Singh.