Culture Shock: Middle Eastern Men and Women Are Group-oriented Rather Than Individually Oriented

But What Does the Veil Mean?

My wife Lucia observed that a large percentage of her female students in Turkey and the United Arab Emirates — perhaps a third — had little interest in full-time jobs after they graduated, but instead hoped to marry and have children shortly after they earned their college degrees. In the UAE, the number of females in my classes aspiring primarily to an MRS degree soon after college graduation