Gender equality plays an important role in the political discourse of multicultural societies. It is widely assumed that immigrants, especially Muslim immigrants in Western European countries, are being held back in terms of their female emancipation due to certain tenets of their faith. This article questions this notion based on a study of the labor force participation of Muslim, Christian and nonreligious women in the Netherlands. This research has proven there to be no significant religiously induced lack of labor force participation on the part of Muslim women, whereas a significant...