Women's Occupation: A Jurisprudential-educational Study

One of the most important jurisprudential issues related to social life is women going out to work, and thus mingling with men in the workplace. This issue has affected the field of education as well as jurisprudence. Because a woman’s going out to work casts a shadow over the process of raising children and causes psychological and emotional damage to the children. It is possible that the basis of family training, in which the woman plays a pivotal role as a “mother,” will undergo fundamental negative changes.
As for Islam, it does not prohibit the mixing of the sexes absolutely, if this does not require the man to be alone with the non-Mahram woman in a place where no one can have access to them. Some believe that the term ‘mixing’ in the aforementioned sense is a new term in Islamic culture. On the other hand, some absolutely forbid mixing between the sexes, and they believe that according to the Qur’anic and narrative texts, it is forbidden for women to go out to work and leave the house for a long period because this usually leads to mixing with non-Mahrams. This article examines the jurisprudential ruling on women’s occupation with the assumption of mixing with non-Mahrams, as well as the educational effects of women’s occupation outside the home using the method of diligent research.
By examining the available evidence, the findings showed that mixing between men and women is not absolutely forbidden, but it is prohibited due to the possibility of occurrence of temptation and falling into the forbidden predicament. In addition, if a woman’s occupation has a negative impact on raising children, especially in the child’s early years, it can be judged to be undesirable and sometimes even forbidden.