Executive Summary

The paper highlights about the Rights of Women in Islam. Women's rights are the prerogatives belonging to women as such, of all ages, which exist independently of their institution or prohibited by law or custom in a particular society. Women's rights are part of the broader concept of human rights. It also includes values and beliefs that Islam portrays the image of women living in the society. Thus, the status of women in Islam has been one of the most controversial topics in the modern era. Islam regards equal rights to both men and women. Women deserve respect for their partner, their children / as and other family members and society. Women have the right to divorce, work, and education and to inherit property. The paper also highlights the history before the arrival of Islam. Islam knows that women and men are different and have different abilities and needs. But being different does not mean being inferior, not even when, because of the difference, it is somewhat weaker and vulnerable. Islam permits women to work, subject to certain conditions, such as a woman cannot be alone with men. Her work should not interfere with more important things, such as child care. Islam permits women to work, subject to certain conditions, such as a woman cannot be alone with men. Her work should not interfere with more important things, such as child care. Preferably, in the women's schools, sports centers, working women than men.

Table of Content

Executive Summary1

Introduction4

Discussion and Analysis5

Islamic Beliefs6

Status Of Women In Islam7

Traditional Muslim Values9

The Economic Dimension11

Various Aspects of the Life Of Islamic Women12

Gender Roles12

Hijab and Liberty12

Women and Their Values In Islam13

Education13

Islam and Women14

Social and Political Rights of Women14

Economic15

Property Rights of Women in Islam15

Marriage and the Right to Divorce in Islam16

Right to Equality16

Financial matters17

Restrictions on Women and Mothers18

Problematic Issues for Mothers and Women19

Women's Employment20

Muslim Women and Women in the West21

Conclusion22

Work cited24

Women's Right in Islam

Introduction

The history of women in the nineteenth-century United States is complicated and difficult to explain. The difficulty stems in part from the category “women,” which encompasses women of all classes working class, middle class, and elite as well as a variety of ethnicities. Regardless of the differences and the unique life experiences of women living in the nineteenth-century United States, perhaps the American feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton's (1815-1902) ties these women together across class, ethnic, and racial lines.

This notion of women as “inferior beings” may have resonated in individual women's lives and encouraged to some extent the ideology of woman's sphere or, as some historians have called it, the “cult of true womanhood.”

The cult of true womanhood combined piety and domesticity with submissiveness and passivity; popular magazines and books of the day reinforced the ideology. In July 1832 Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of the women's magazine Godey's Lady's Book, described the “true woman” as one who was “delicate and timid,” “required protection,” and “possessed a sweet dependency.” The cult of true womanhood developed as a distinctive middle-class ideology in the first half of the ...