Readers generally want to know how Muslims reconcile their lifestyle, inspired by a religion from the seventh century,with the values of modern,secular,egalitarian society. One theme is the importance of gender relations and the false perception that Muslim women enough to marry,have children and stay at home to serve their men.
The Muslim reader emphasizes gender equality in Islam and invite the participants to not only focus on the veil and see the diversity of lifestyles,thoughts and choices among Canadian Muslims.
They recognize that many institutions and the traditional Muslim organizations in Canada do not give a significant role for women but reject the view that women were oppressed in their household.
The assumption that Muslim women are housewives make their full-time within the mainstream society in Canada,which considers the inclusion of women in the labor market as a milestone in women's rights movement.
However,by opposing traditions that limit their activity only at home, and unaffected by the employers in Canada who belittle or look at one eye of their reputation,Muslim mothers who have children at home are now many who enter the labor market in amount that exceeds the before-before,in fields such as healthcare, education and management,so that helped launch Canada's latent economic power and changing economic role of husband and wife. In fact,some women this is the main family breadwinner.
Many women assume multiple roles as homemaker and breadwinner of his own choice, although it becomes a double burden,in order to realize their full potential.
They are driven by the desire to utilize their education for personal development and progress of society in which they live and work.Many Muslim women first came to Canada in the 1960s and 1970s as a student / student and trainee. Now Muslim women workers,including groups of bilingual (English and French) the most educated in Canada.
According to the 2001 census, the last census that details the religious community, 50 percent of Muslim women with children aged pre-school and school age have or have ever had a job, to equal or exceed the level of participation in the job market of the European women in countries such as Italy and Spain. This figure does not include the ambitious mothers who leave their jobs to return to studying to improve their qualifications in the hope of eventually getting a better job.
The census also shows that financially, many Muslim women earn better than Muslim men. Most of them become successful consultants while others holding high positions. Women only one third of the total workforce Muslim,but Muslim men exceeded the health-related jobs.According to the census, they are also more likely to get a decent job other produce such as legal,a new phenomenon that grew in recent years.
Although some Canadian Muslim women want to work armed with a degree and their training,others were forced by circumstances to assume the role of provider. Included in this group are women who divorced or separated away from the husband. They must work in order to feed and shelter their children, and they should be caring for the family. Their number is not small:ten percent of Muslim children in Canada living with single parents and,in four out of five such families,parents were mothers.
The majority of Muslim women as mothers of other Canadians, trying to balance between family and work,and renegotiate the division of household responsibilities. They do not regard them as dual-role homemaker and breadwinner contrary to their religion,and saw that some habits are inherited as an obligation of religion - such as the restriction of women to the home affairs - is actually the product of social situation of the past and therefore can be adjusted with times and different environments.
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