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Managing the forces arrayed against them -- hostility against Islam in the Western world resistance to change among Muslims and hostility to the West among Muslim populations -- is no easy task for Muslim women in positions of leadership. As one of the participants in a recent leadership conference noted: ”A Muslim woman must prove not just that she is as good or better than a man but as good as a Western woman.” Two Wharton leadership experts were among the presenters at the three-week event. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.