Pious Women Challenge Arrangements Anchored in the Dominancy of the Religious Discourse: Druze Women in Israel as a Case Study

This qualitative study examines how the agency of religious Druze women in Israel affects professional identity and affiliation these, turn, shape gender perception their community, especially fields education employment. Through semi-structured interviews with twenty women, identifies factors that promote or inhibit increasing legitimacy community discourse for integration higher quality The main finding is religious, professionally educated direct to a complex challenging interaction modern world. By doing so, these challenge boundaries ultra-religious thereby expanding them. findings show reject binary division between “conservative religious” “modern” replace it different definitions what considered conservative, modern. One insights emerged from are able act autonomously make choices, acquire education, integrate into poor local labor market positions, accumulate economic social resources through status, negotiate status community.