ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the difficulties veiled Muslim women face when confronted with discrimination in varying contexts in Muslim counties, noting similarities in the harms endured despite dramatically different state policies towards veiling. Women’s statements show how harmful state veiling policies are, and how harmful the forms of discrimination women experience that stem from these policies are, especially when the state is unwilling to step in and mitigate such harms, leaving women to either endure the discrimination or succumb to the pressure to comply with others’ desires for themselves. Here, I specify and examine three types of harms that veiled women routinely experience: education-based harms, workplace-based harms, and relationship-based harms. Before discussing each of these, the harms specifically, I provide a background on the context of veiling in the contexts of both countries.
