many mosques today will put the women behind a barrier or partition or in another room. mosques in south and southeast asia put men and women in separate rooms, as the divisions were built into them centuries ago. in nearly two-thirds of american mosques, women pray behind partitions or in separate areas, not in the main prayer hall; some mosques do not admit women at all. although there are sections only for women and children, the grand mosque in mecca is desegregated.