Women continue to be underrepresented in physics in the United States. This is while many Muslim majority (MM) countries have a high representation of women in undergraduate and graduate physics programs. While there is a growing awareness of this trend, little is being done to understand why and how this trend has manifested and how it can be…

Education in Pakistan is no longer a matter of indifference to the rest of the world. Typically, concern is focused on the role played by the madrasah (Islamic religious school; plural madaaris) as the dominant provider of education. The rise in the number of English-medium education institutions countrywide does not enter such accounts. This…

Parallels between Muslim and feminist arguments in support of single-sex schools for females are explored. Feminists need not see it as a betrayal of principle to cooperate with Muslims to achieve the goal of single-sex schools even though they do not share all of the same goals and ideals. (SLD)