Integration programs targeting women aim to break patriarchy and transmit assimilation to children.

Evidence

Second, targeting women would over time have a greater impact on integration efforts, as women would be more likely to transmit their language skills and attitudes to their children. Third, by empowering women they would undermine the patriarchal norms of Islam and thereby accelerate the breakdown of cultural sources of resistance to integration and assimilation. — Michael A. Reynolds and Thomas D. Grant, The Future of Europe and Its Muslims, 107

Categorization

  • ADDENDUM: Directly extends ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ — here the state itself deploys women’s dress, schedules, and bodies as the lever of cultural assimilation.
  • BMF: Evokes the Project Mushroom subplot in A Very Minor Prophet, where a well-meaning liberal initiative recruits the most vulnerable members of a community as its transmission vector and quietly detonates the community’s own internal authority.