Could not agree more. Even if all the difficulty in this supposedly simple exchange resides in the first step, the actual “listening”, which is a bit less obvious when confronted with stubbornness or “narrow-mindedness”. 
As an open minded (but formerly more militant) atheist, I gathered many points of view about the place and importance of faith in each and everyone’s life. There remains one constant : the more or less conscientious struggle between what religions promote as “the ONE truth” , the one way to live one’s life … and the evidence that there should/could be as many truths as there are lives to live it. 
This very dilemma is what shakes many believer’s faiths. In a sense, your valuable initiative reaffirms that. There is not one “woman muslim truth” but there are as much as there are women to live theirs. Somehow this all links to the very semantic difference between what could be considered as guidelines and what should never be considered as law. A semantic wide scope where, in between, we most often bump into this word : tradition.