From Manila Bulletin's book shelf - Moudifa ! Culture Shock from the top

MOUDIFA. Book author Margarita Marquis comes from a middle class family in the Philippines. She’s quite pretty and together with her three sisters, all became flight attendants. When she applied for the job flying in an airline based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, she had to compete in a field of 50 ladies from 32 countries.
She made the grade and in her early 20’s, still a naive virgin in the late 70s, she plunged into the heady world of international travel. She would soon discover in training what it was like for women to live in the Kingdom. First of all, she had to wear the veil, the abaya, as an article of modesty in public or risk outright assault. She was shocked to discover what it was like to be a woman in the Kingdom. To her it meant, "Freedom is a stranger there."
Moudifa, means airhostess, that is how they are called in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where she worked for almost 10 years. But they look down at them like they were "whores."
This and a long string of experiences afterwards which she kept deep in her heart and those other countries working in the Kingdom tell of ordeals of rape and physical abuse, of men jailed or flogged or worse, beheaded, for crimes they were accused of.
The book is available at Central Books at 927 Phoenix Bldg., Quezon Avenue corner Roosevelt Avenue or call 372 3550 Loc. 31 and at Glorietta, inside Goodwill Bookstore is Central Books Supply or call 892 7050. It costs P275.00. * * * * *