Many of the issues people bring up about women receiving a formal education and working are valid concerns, but the issue isn’t with formal education and working in and of themselves, but rather the type of education and work that exists in modern industrial society.
Education and work were much more domestic for both genders before the Industrial Revolution, and higher education was often not necessary to enter the workforce, which means many of the issues with women working for long hours away from home didn’t exist.
I’ve already written a lot in the past about why I believe industrialisation is incompatible with an Islāmic society, so I don’t have to get into that now, but the point is that the nature of work and formal education in an Islāmic society would be radically different from today.
This means it would be possible for women to receive an education and enter the workforce without all the negative side effects that come with it today, and unlike the claim of many, women did get educated and work before feminism was even a thing.
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