Islam recuperated the status of women compared to earlier Arab cultures, forbidding female

infanticide and acknowledging women’s full personal identity. Historical background revealed that
Muhammad (P.B.U.H) conferred women and pondered their opinions seriously.  Women prayed in
mosques unsegregated from men, were involved in hadith spread, engaged in commercial
transactions, were emboldened to seek knowledge, and were both lecturers and learners in the
early Islamic period.
“And for women are rights over men, similar to those of men over women.” Qur’an 2:228

In view of Islamic law, it is permissible to a Muslim woman to go out for work as Jabir Ibn 'Abdullah
reported: My maternal aunt was divorced, and she intended to pluck her dates [from palm trees]. A
person scolded her for having come out (during her waiting period). She came to the Prophet (peace
and blessings be upon him) and he told her: "Certainly you can pluck (dates) from your palm trees,
for perhaps you may give out charity or do an act of kindness." [Muslim, Sahih),but involves some
conditions:

1. The job does not include anything that negates Islamic laws and legal verdicts.
2. There is no threat to her chastity and modesty.
3. The job suits women’s physical and psychological nature.
4. She should not be prevented from being veiled(in Islamic way) and her dignity and her
dignity should not be scorned.

Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen said: The field in which a woman works should be only
for women, such as if she works in teaching girls, whether in administration or technical support, or
she works at home as a seamstress sewing clothes for women and so on. As for working in fields that
are for men, this is not permissible for her because it requires her to mix with men, which is a great
fitnah (source of temptation and trouble) and should be avoided.

In case of married females, It is corroborated in sharia that it is impermissible for a wife to go out for
work except with her husband's permission. If a wife goes out for work without her husband's
permission, she will be culpable.( http://www.dar-alifta.org/Foreign/ViewFatwa.aspx?ID=6810)

In some other occasions , we found that it is better for a woman to stay at home and not go out
except for her necessity.

“And stay in your houses, and do not display yourselves like that of the times of ignorance”

[al-Ahzaab 33:33]. 

The Prophet (P.B.U.H) said: “Woman is ‘awrah, and if she goes out, the devil raises her
hopes (of misguiding her). She is never closer to Allah than when she stays in her house.”
Narrated by Ibn Hibbaan and Ibn Khuzaymah; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in al-Silsilah
al-Shaheehah, no. 2688. 

(https://islamqa.info/en/answers/106815/guidelines-on-women-working-outside-the-home)

In some places, it also came across that women have equal positions with men in financial and
commercial fields and working and earning is encouraged in Islam without making discrimination
between men and women as stated:

“That man can have nothing but what he strives for” (Qur’an, The Star (An-Najm); 39 (53: 39))…
 “To men is allotted what they earn, and to women what they earn, but ask Allah of his Bounty.”
(Qur’an, The Women (An-Nissa); 32 (4: 32)).

When the subject is about working, discrimination between women and men is not in question in
the verse :

“O you who believe! Do not devour your property among yourselves falsely, except that it be
trading by your mutual consent; and do not kill your people; surely Allah is Merciful to you”
(Qur’an, The Women (An-Nissa); 29 (4: 29))

And in the hadith “It is better for one of you taking his rope and loading upon his back a bunch of
woods, bringing and selling them than begging” (Bukhari, Buyu: 5) that are about trading.

(https://questionsonislam.com/article/there-any-religious-objection-womens-working-it-
religiously-permissible-women-work-among-man)

In the light of above narratives, we can conclude that women can or cannot work depending upon
the circumstances e.g. If she is in need of work as she had no protector and she had to support her
family then she could do work but if her husband restricts or opposes her working then she do not
have the right to work. We can conclude our discussion by a reference:

There is no harm in working of a woman in the house or workplace of a stranger man if it is in the
way Islam orders; namely, if she works with some other women or if she works in an open area.
But, if she has to stay with a stranger man alone in a closed place, it is haram since solitude
occurs (Al- Fiqh ala’ al- Mazahib al Arbaa, c.3 p.125).