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Friday, 14 December 2018

We’ve got the degrees, so why do Muslim women struggle to get jobs? | Aina Khan

Austerity is partly to blame, but racism and Islamophobia are still holding us back

For the last decade, more Muslim women than men are going into higher education. Armed with the professional gold dust of a degree, these women should be on the way towards a blossoming career.

However, a new report by the Institute for Public Policy and Research (IPPR) highlights that for Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslim women like me, this glowing success vanishes as these women struggle to enter the labour market.

Related: Britain is full of inspirational Muslim women. They’re more crucial than ever | Mariya Hussain

Related: For Muslim women life had been getting better. No longer | Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

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from Islam | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2Ep3GHF

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