Women empowerment has reached one of its most important historical milestones in Saudi Arabia when the country formally opened its first sports complex for women.

Local Arabic newspaper Al Watan, on Monday, reported several businesswomen and women personalities graced the opening of the sports complex, which is located in Al-Khobar province. The center's name, however, was withheld.

In the particular complex, Saudi women can engage in karate and practise yoga, as well as attend fitness classes, Al Watan further said.

The complex had likewise recruited Saudi women who trained abroad to run courses at the centre, Al Watan said, quoting Hanaa Al-Zuhair, the centre's director. It was reported that one of those overseas-trained Saudi women has a karate black belt under her name.

In May, the Middle Eastern oil-rich kingdom finally gave the go signal, allowing girls studying in private schools to play sports for the first time, a move strongly lauded by the international community, albeit received backlash from the members of the ultra conservative kingdom.

Earlier, one of Saudi Arabia's writers unabashedly called for its men to molest its working Saudi women.

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Despite such thinking, Saudi women continued to rally on to put their imprint not just on the homefront but also on the international scene.

In May, 27-year-old graphic designer from Jeddah, Raha Moharrak, became the first Saudi woman, as well as the youngest Arab, to climb Mount Everest.

Read: Raha Moharrak Conquers Everest: Saudi Women Celebrate Empowerment

Also in May, proponents of an anti-domestic abuse advertorial campaign, the country's first, was able to get published in the local newspapers. The highly controversial advertorial called for the criminalisation of domestic violence among its female population.

Read: Signs of Changing Times? Saudi Arabia Publishes 1st Ever Anti-Domestic Violence Advert

Slowly but surely, women empowerment gets its voice in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi politics has allowed that 30 per cent of legislative seats be given to the women. Come 2015, Saudi women can already vote. Last summer, Saudi Arabia has sent its first ever female athletes to the Olympics.