Amina is hosting a thought-provoking event, bringing together mainstream and other employability providers to facilitate discussion, create new partnerships and work together to foster best practice, ensuring services are inclusive of the employability needs of Muslim women. Amina says that:
- Muslim women are 71% more likely to be unemployed than white Christian counterparts with comparable levels of educational attainment.
- Many Muslim women in Britain face a “triple penalty” impacting on their job prospects – being women, being from an ethnic minority and being Muslim.
“According to recent research and our experiences of leading and delivering employability work, reasons for high unemployment rates amongst Muslim women include; discrimination and Islamophobia, stereotyping, pressure from traditional families and insufficient role models.”
The half day session will include roundtable discussions and the following speakers:
Jamie Hepburn MSP – Minister for Employability & Training
Dr Khadijah Elshayyal – Alwaleed Centre, author of ‘Scottish Muslims in Numbers’
Dr Nabil Khattab – University of Bristol and Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, author of multiple papers including ‘Ethno – religious identities and persisting penalties in the UK labour market’.
Monday 20th March 2017, 12:00–16:00
Radisson Blu Hotel, 80 High Street, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh, EH1 1TH
To book a place, please use the following Eventbrite link:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/employability-muslim-women-in-scotland-tickets-31831849920
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