Women in Saudi Arabia have scorned the government's decision to grant citizenship to a female robot who, unlike them, does not need a male guardian or have to cover her head in public.

✏️Sophia, a female robot, was granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia last week.

✏️The robot is not required to cover her hair or be accompanied by a male guardian in public, unlike flesh-and-blood Saudi women.

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Women married to foreigners in the gender-segregated nation cannot pass on citizenship to their children.

Social media was abuzz with questions about whether the robot, Sophia, who was unveiled at a technology conference in the capital Riyadh last week, will be treated like other women in the conservative kingdom now that she is a citizen.

"It hit a sore spot that a robot has citizenship and my daughter doesn't," Hadeel Shaikh, a Saudi woman whose four-year-old child with a Lebanese man does not have citizenship.”