Muslim immigrant women, not men, prove the greatest obstacle to integration.

Evidence

Directing integration efforts at women, they believe, offers three advantages. One is that women are more pliable and receptive to integration efforts. … Each of these assumptions is problematic, at least in part. The notion that women are more receptive to integration is contradicted by research, which suggests that among Muslim immigrants it is precisely the women who constitute the greatest force against integration. — Michael A. Reynolds and Thomas D. Grant, The Future of Europe and Its Muslims, 108

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Inverts both the policy common sense and the feminist assumption behind it: the group presumed most ‘pliable’ is the group holding the line, which suggests cultural transmission runs through women’s resistance rather than their receptivity.
• SEED: Angle: assimilation policy keeps betting on the demographic it most misunderstands — a piece on women as cultural gatekeepers against well-intentioned state intervention.