The Muslim Family; redefining progress for the Muslim Woman:
“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” C. S. Lewis The Muslim Woman today needs to ask herself what does progress mean to her and how will she define it. Will she accept the contemporary definition of progress offered to her or will it be a more natural consequence of her own journey? The contemporary standards against which female progress is gauged like ‘gender parity’ and ‘gender equality’ are far from becoming a reality any time soon. Given the condition of women all around the world, it would be foolish to claim that getting more jobs, earning more money, getting a degree, climbing mountains or even travelling into space is the sort of human progress we should be pressing for when ‘female objectification’ throughout international media is constantly perpetuating “violence against women’ and is shaping male and