Women economic rights in Islam

Well this is a brief view, i don;t think I am covering it all , but this is just a small insight I got from a research on the net for those who are interested about having an overview of women economic rights in Islam.

Economic rights

Islam gives for the women the right of independent ownership, woman's right to her money, real estate, or other properties is fully acknowledged. This right undergoes no change whether she is single or married. She retains her full rights to buy, sell, mortgage or lease any or all her properties
Her assets remained hers, and marriage or divorce will not alter the fact.

No married woman is required to spend any amount at all from her property and income on the household.

However in some circumstances she may find it necessary to spend from her earnings or savings to provide the necessities for her family. While this is not a legal obligation, it is consistent with the mutuality of care, love and cooperation among family members.

The woman is entitled also to full financial support during marriage and during the waiting period in case of divorce or widowhood. Some jurists require , in addition, one year's support for divorce and widowhood (or until they remarry, if remarriage takes place before the year is over).
A woman who bears a child in marriage is entitled to child support from the child's father. Muslim wife is entitled to be supported by her husband, no matter how rich she may be in her own right; whilst she is a child, she is entitled to be supported by her father and in old age she is entitled to be supported by her children. The Muslim woman is relieved of the burden of having to earn a living, and she is allowed to dispose of her earnings in whatever manner she chooses.


The financial advantages accorded to women and not to men in marriage and in family have a social counterpart in the provisions that the Quran lays down in the laws of inheritance, which afford the male, in most cases, twice the inheritance of a female.
Her share in most cases is one-half the man's share, with no implication that she is worth half a man!
This variation in inheritance rights is only consistent with the variations in financial responsibilities of man and woman according to the Islamic Law.

Man in Islam is fully responsible for the maintenance of his wife, his children, and in some cases of his needy relatives, especially the females. This responsibility is not reduced because of his wife's wealth or because of her access to any personal income gained.
She has no obligation to spend on her family out of such properties or out of her income after marriage.

The Quran states: "Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend of their wealth (for the support of women)." (4:34)