Women who wear hijab are less likely to be employed in Germany. Employment discrimination will result in significant opportunity costs for the German economy in the long run
as she saw her elderly German neighbour passing by. Naba's daughter followed the cue and said “The neighbour responded with warmth and inquired about their wellbeing. For an outsider, with a limited knowledge of German politics and society, the exchange between Amal and her neighbour was heartwarming. It was genuine human-to-human contact based on compassion and goodwill.
Amal ives with her daughter and husband and at the moment the family is surviving on Germany’s largesse. “We came here after facing many difficulties. My husband crossed the dangerous sea switching many boats. He was even arrested in Italy. I had to languish in camps in Lebanon without him,” Amal narrated the story of how trying times had been. “But Germany gave us a home and helped us. Now, we want to build our lives here with dignity,” she said as she offered us home-made Syrian sweets.
“These high levels of discrimination discourage hijab-wearing women from participating in the labour market and, consequently, from attaining education. This makes women more dependent on male partners and potential state support, respectively,” she toldAmal's eight-year-old daughter, who gets along with her German neighbours quite well.
The attitudes are manifesting themselves in the daily social and economic lives of the refugees. A recent survey by the Institute for Employment Research and the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees said that while the rate of employment of refugee men has gone up remarkably, it has remained at just six percent for female refugees.
At the heart of the hijab issue is the question Germans are vociferously debating: what is Germany’s leitkultur or leading culture?
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