Hijab-wearing Muslim women face discrimination in UK

British women wearing Hijab are facing work discrimination as employers prefer hiring non-veil-wearing employees, a new inquiry finds.

 

 

British women wearing Hijab are facing work discrimination as employers prefer hiring non-veil-wearing employees, a new inquiry finds.

UK lawmakers have warned that Muslim women who wear headscarves are routinely being passed over for jobs and that this has now become an “acceptable” form of discrimination, The Telegraph reported on Thursday.

A UK House of Commons report found that employers assumed that Hijab-wearing Muslims are “submissive and weak”.

Employers illegally interrogate Muslim women at interviews about whether they are married and have children or want to have children.

The report demands urgent action to tackle high rates of unemployment in the Muslim community.