How has Saudi Arabian law respected gender equality historically and in the modern era?

The QUESTION:

‘Mediational approaches permit parties to participate in making solutions that might be more
long–lasting, consensual, tailored to their own needs, contingent and re–visitable, and less likely to
lead to desires for revenge, as losing often does.’

Carrie Menkel–Meadow. 2013. Toward a Jurisprudence of Law, Peace, Justice, and a Tilt Toward
Non–Violent and Empathic Means of Human Problem Solving. Unbound: Harvard Journal of the
Legal Left, 8, pp.79–108, at p.89

Compare and contrast legalistic and mediational approaches to dispute resolution, and in doing so, explain the extent to which you agree with the above statement