Do you refrain from wearing covering your head at work or on Zoom calls to avoid being stereotyped or discriminated against? I sometimes feel the urge to but I stop myself because I don't want any clients/opportunities that I had to get by disregarding my religion. Has anyone else been in this dilemma before? What helped you progress?

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I’ve been a Hijabi since I was about 10 or 11 years old so it just feels natural for me to wear my hijab everywhere outside of my home or in the presence of non-mahram etc. I will say that I believe it’s more powerful than anything to be on a video call and see that I’m the only Hijabi in the meeting or that I’m one of the only Hijabis at the firm itself. Anyone who thinks that we are any less because of our hijabs is just ignorant. May Allah make it easy for you and us all. 🩵

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Thanks so much for your comment. Gotta love the support of our fellow Muslim Consultants in the Muslim Consultants bowl.

Non hijabi Muslim woman here. I say flip it on its head, get them to see past the hijab by showing up your best confident happy self and watch them forget any pre conceived notions.

I once worked with a hijabi partner whom both myself and the designer loved working with because she was legitimately kind, smart and fun to work with.

Now a scowl or condescending tone, that's hard to look past more than anything.

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Curious to hear why you don’t wear hijab

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Nope. Thought never crossed my mind TBH. I'm in the UK and London based so fairly cosmopolitan. Understand it might be different elsewhere.

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Do you wear it day to day?

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Just been wearing the hijab for way too long to feel this way. Remember just because you clever up doesn’t mean you are covering your brain.

Too many liberal Muslim women in here to cover themselves the way the Quran ordered them too

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