A Socio- Jurisprudential Analysis of Women’s Forbidden Occupations according to Imamiah Fiqh

Despite women’s inalienable right to have some occupations of their own, their specific character and disposition, and biological, behavioral and economic differences from men cause the religious thought to consider some restrictions for them which could affect their rights and responsibilities . One of the necessities of modern world is, therefore, presenting a correct picture of these rights and the manner of women’s participation in social domain based on the religious instructions. This study, carried out with library and documentary methods, takes the jurisprudential foundations of women’s occupation into consideration and concludes that the forbiddance of employing women as judges and  as authorities empowered to pass religious decrees does not in any way signify their being discriminated against or deprived of social rights, but rather it means a blessing for safeguarding ethical values, mental and physical conditions of women and protecting the supremacy of the family as a social institution.