Charted: How People in Seven Muslim Countries Believe Women Should Dress
As the chart above, created by the Pew Research Center,
goes, there’s quite a bit of variation over what constitutes proper
dress for women in the Islamic world. The data for the chart come from
the Middle Eastern Values Survey
conducted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social
Research. (Several hundred people comprising what the researchers
describe as a nationally representative sample in terms of education,
religion, and social class were polled in each country. The gender
breakdown was close to 50–50 in each of them.)
As you’ll see, the majority overall said that a woman should
completely cover her hair but not her face. The majority in conservative
Saudi Arabia favored the face-covering niqab, while relatively liberal
Lebanon and Turkey had the highest support for no covering at all.
(Hijabs are still prohibited for women in a number of jobs in Turkey.)
Overall, Tunisia had the highest number of respondents (56 percent)
saying it is “up to a woman to dress whichever way she wants." Only 14
percent of Egyptians agreed. Interestingly, given that it has the most
stringent legal dress codes of any country sampled, 47 percent of Saudis
said women should be able to dress how they wish.
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