Why This Biglaw Associate Wears A Hijab To Work
She's smashing stereotypes left and right and teaching lawyers to accept others.
This is one of the only countries where we can be who we are and still belong to American society. My “work” ridas are mostly blues and greys.
Obviously, we’re in a politically charged time. We have an American presidential candidate running on a platform of explicit bias, and there’s a misconception about women who wear hijab. I want to help people be more culturally competent, to create a dialogue.
— Fatema Merchant, a senior associate at Sheppard Mullin, explaining some of the reasons why she wears a hijab to work. Merchant says she does not know any other Muslim woman in Biglaw who chooses to wear a hijab to the office.
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