[Q 185] Women’s Employment in Schools

Question

Can women work in high school as a teacher or teacher assistant? And can she work in high school to get experience and in future she can do homeschooling or teach in islamic school .?

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

الجواب بعون الملك الوهاب اللهم هداية الحق والصواب

Answer

If the school is an all-female school, a woman may work as a teacher or as an assistant to a female teacher.

And if it is a school where the there are male students who have hit the age of puberty or male students who are close to puberty, then a woman is not allowed to work as a teacher there.

Answered by: Mufti Sajid Attari

Translated by: Mawlana Gohar Madani

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