Women driving in Saudi Arabia isn't technically illegal, but it might as well be. When

Manal al-Sharif took the wheel in 2011, and she filmed her drives and put them on YouTube. She was put in jail. Her brother was detained twice by the police for giving her his keys, and her young son got punched in the face by his classmates. The imam in her father's mosque called women drivers "prostitutes" in a sermon. "It wasn't a punishment for taking the wheel and driving a few miles," she said in an inspiring TED talk last year. "It was a punishment for daring to challenge the society's rules."