“It’s wholly frustrating and demoralizing to try and find work as a woman who wears the headscarf. You can find a job, sure, but you cannot find a good job that will guarantee your economic independence. Islamic firms are the worst in this regard – you think that a practicing Muslim would be the last person to take away your rights, but they are the first in line. They will work you for long hours with little pay and no benefits, just so that they can make a profit from your cheap labor. They know you probably cannot find a job elsewhere, so you have to suffer as long as you can,” she says. “I’ve worked at three Islamic companies and four normal firms, and I will never apply for a job at an Islamic company again. I can’t even begin to explain what they put headscarved women through at these places; it turns the stomach. I’m not a slave, and I refuse to be treated without respect.”
Re: Discrimination a fact of working life for headscarved women
First of all, my compliments for your love for our religion and I totally support all the moslimas wanting to wear headscarves.
I know someone very close to me, who also wears a headscarve and she totally get accepted for who she is. I wont say that you will not get good job when wearing headscarve, because this person whom I know, has a better paying job then me, but its also very common that many people are not so fortunate
Re: Discrimination a fact of working life for headscarved women
I know plenty of girls who wear scarves and have done well for themselves. Maybe she can't find a job because she's not very qualified or doesn't have a great CV or has personality issues?
ps. the value and respect scarf wearers have in western country, you will never ever going to find it in any muslim country. in fact on many occassion scarf wearer face an ill treatement
