{"id":23656,"date":"2020-01-21T10:09:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T10:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=16557"},"modified":"2025-07-25T10:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:54:08","slug":"hijab-and-discrimination-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/news\/2020\/01\/21\/hijab-and-discrimination-2","title":{"rendered":"The hijab and discrimination towards women who wear it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/hijab-and-discrimination.jpg\" alt=\"hijab and discrimination\" class=\"wp-image-24566\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>IAS faculty member <a href=\"\/ias\/faculty-and-staff\/karam-dana\">Karam Dana<\/a> is co-author of a research report on the discrimination faced by women who wear the hijab in the United States. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/religioninpublic.blog\/2020\/01\/21\/targeted-veiled-women-experience-significantly-more-discrimination-in-the-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Targeted: Veiled Women Experience Significantly More Discrimination in the U.S.<\/a>&#8221; appears on the Religion in Public blog, and examines whether Muslims who wear the hijab are more likely to experience mistreatment and perceive discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This issue is particularly important in the context of more general anti-muslim discrimination in the U.S., as women who wear the hijab are more highly visible and identifiable as \u201cMuslim.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IAS faculty member <a href=\"\/ias\/faculty-and-staff\/karam-dana\">Karam Dana<\/a> is co-author of a research report on the discrimination faced by women who wear the hijab in the United States. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/religioninpublic.blog\/2020\/01\/21\/targeted-veiled-women-experience-significantly-more-discrimination-in-the-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Targeted: Veiled Women Experience Significantly More Discrimination in the U.S.<\/a>&#8221; appears on the <em>Religion in Public<\/em> blog, and examines whether Muslims who wear the hijab are more likely to experience mistreatment and perceive discrimination. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_is_archived":false,"_archived_contact_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[38],"school":[],"class_list":["post-23656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-research-and-creative-practice","tag-dana"],"acf":{"related_links":{"toggle_visibility":false,"link_1":"","link_2":"","link_3":"","link_4":"","link_5":""},"highlight_box":{"toggle_visibility":false,"title":"","content":"","button":"","button_style":"angled-purple-button","button_screen_reader_text":""},"contact_type_1":{"toggle_visibility":true,"contact_title":"Contact Type","email":"sample@uwb.edu","phone":"(206) 999-9999","box":"Box 358500","address_line_1":"18115 Campus Way NE","address_line_2":"Bothell, WA 98011-8246","location":""},"contact_type_2":{"toggle_visibility":false,"contact_title":"","email":"","phone":"","box":"","address_line_1":"","address_line_2":"","location":""},"social_media":{"toggle_visibility":false,"facebook_url":"","instagram_url":"","linkedin_url":"","twitter_url":"","youtube_url":""},"blog_archive_sidebar_visibility":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The hijab and discrimination towards women who wear it - School of Interdisciplinary Arts &amp; 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