nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/be2939a9e8aaa668 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 251218s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/be2939a9e8aaa668 doi eng 342 23 Howard, Erica Author aut Headscarves and the Wrong Balance - Neutrality and Business v Freedom of Religion and Non-discrimination Howard, Erica Verfassungsblog 2025-12-18 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier To date, the CJEU has decided 6 cases concerning women who wanted to wear a headscarf at work. All judgments suggest that considerations of neutrality can trump religious freedom. Although the CJEU made some general and abstract comments about the importance of freedom of religion, it did not really address what the bans, in practice, meant for the individual women involved, neither did engage with the possibility that these neutrality rules could constitute sex, race and/or intersectional discrimination. The CJEU thus provide little protection for the rights of headscarf wearing Muslim women. CC BY-SA 4.0 Neutrality Religionsfreiheit freedom of religion head scarf ban intersectionality religious freedom (DE-588)4125186-6 gnd Religionsfreiheit Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/headscarves-and-the-wrong-balance/ raw object