The author of the study, Toronto professor Sarah Shah, says her report shows what biases and socio-economic pressures women face and will be the basis for a new “data hub” about Canadian Muslims.

A new study entitled “Voices That Matter: An Intersectional Analysis of Canadian Muslim Women” — released by a Canadian organization — sheds light on how Canadian Muslim women experience poorer social and economic conditions compared to non-Muslim women.

The Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW), a Toronto organization that helps empower Canadian Muslim women, teamed up with University of Toronto sociology professor, Sarah Shah, who conducted and prepared the study. Shah said the “qualitative findings” about Muslim mothers surprised her. She said this study is the first of its kind in Canada, utilizing both survey data and interviews from a diverse group of Muslim women. “The surprising thing about the quantitative findings is that nothing was surprising,”

As a whole, the study also revealed the ways in which queer, disabled and Black Muslim women, as well as new residents and single mothers, face even worse conditions than Muslim women in general.

Source: American Muslim Today (AMT)