Fascinating insight into the lives of modern working Muslim women. As a Muslim herself and a trained economist, Zahidi is both respectful to her faith and honest about the issues that exist in many majority Muslim countries. She emphasizes the progress being made by professional women across the Muslim world, using relevant statistics linked with the stories of individual women. Highly recommended. Review based on an ARC received through Netgalley.

Zahidi delivers a book that combines oral history with hard data. In the book she includes accounts and research about 30 Muslim majority countries covering all societal influences. She specifically looks at the "third way" and how women combine career aspirations with family obligation and also brings light to the role of men in these changed circumstances. The author manages to not gloss over the obstacles that women still face, but overall, this is a positive book.

In additional to learning things that I didn't know, I really thought it was interesting to read about the parallels of the feminist movement in the Muslim Word vs the Western World.