What is the ruling regarding a woman working if the majority of her workplace consists of women, and it is a respectable environment, and she donates most of her salary, and her children do not need her, and she is psychologically affected by remaining at home?
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There is no religious impediment to a woman working if the work is permissible, does not lead to religious transgressions such as excessive display of adornment (tabarruj) and intermingling (ikhtilat), and if her remaining alone at home negatively affects her.
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