Think Like A Lady Podcast

Welcome to Think Like a Lady! A podcast that enlightens tough issues about a woman’s place in a dominantly man’s world. Our discussions intend to stimulate thought provoking perspectives that are rarely the narrative in mainstream think tanks. From how the age of severe economic inequality has undermined women in the workforce to navigating the intricacies of the early suffragette movements who denied women’s rights to women of color.Let’s face it. Women are awesome. We’re not here to talk about us being awesome as just some empty platitude. We have some staggering data to prove it. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, as of 2019, there are now more women in medical school than men. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Education, women outpaced men in earning bachelor’s degrees by 1982, they earned more master’s degrees than men by 1987, and by 2006 they took up the majority of doctoral degrees conferred in the United States.Ok, but enough of us gloating. It seems that even though we’re just now beginning to dominate on so many frontiers, we’re still putting up with ridiculous challenges. From facing harassment in mosques, churches and other places of worship, and of course the workplace to the pink tax, Dua and Afroze talk about their own microcosmic experiences that lay bear on an intersection between their experiences as Muslim women who grew up with one foot in the west and the other foot in the east. Women have managed to conquer vast and numerous frontiers despite not being given the reigns to pioneer. It’s time we knocked men off of their high horse.

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S1E4 - To Take Off the Hijab

September 03, 2020 • Afroze & Dua • Season 1 • Episode 4

On this episode of our podcast we will be discussing the WOMAN’s perspective of hijab. An outlook you will never get from a man. Which is why we believe men shouldn’t have an opinion about hijab. They should simply listen.

Hijab is a journey but we would be lying if we said it didn’t have its difficulties. Often times putting on the hijab means signing an unspoken contract for a set of expectations that are unrealistic for almost every person. It means being put on a pedestal much higher than a woman who doesn’t wear hijab... and miles higher than any man.

Our hosts, Dua and Afroze, both bring their outlook on hijab to the table. Afroze is a hijab wearing woman, she wears hijab to the office, to the grocery store and yes, even in swimming pools. Dua is just as much of a devout Muslim as Afoze who does not wear hijab but grapples with it. Just as there is a certain amount of mental strength in putting on hijab... believe it or not, there’s also a mental strength required in taking it off. Neither are easy decisions for a woman.

We discuss the in-between limbo that many hijab wearing women feel where they’re too afraid of social backlash from their own communities in taking it off, in which they begin to feel disingenuous to themselves because they start to feel that they’re wearing it for the public. We discuss the burden of the pedestal that Muslim society puts on hijab wearing women in which many women profess that it is often their own communities and not necessarily western society that can make hijab a heavy burden to carry. Join us as we offer a perspective from both hijabi and non-hijabi wearing women.