The guidelines a woman must observe while working outside the home

Question:
May Allah reward you. The sender, Saha Salim from al-Bukayriyah, says in her first question: I hope for clarification on the ruling regarding a woman working outside the home?

Answer:
The default is that a woman’s work is inside the home, due to the tasks the home requires that only women perform, such as raising the children, preparing food, and arranging the household furniture. This is the work of women. Likewise, men’s work is outside the home: labor, earning, and travel to seek sustenance. There is also the protection, preservation, and safeguarding that comes from a woman working in her home. However, if she needs to go out for work that is befitting her, there is nothing wrong with it, provided there are conditions: her work must be in a women’s field, not a men’s field; she must go out wearing the hijab; she must not apply perfume when going out; and she must not wear clothes of adornment or jewelry, nor any other form of tabarruj (display of adornment) that tempts men.
Allah the Exalted said: Tabarruj is the display of a woman’s beauty, because great harms result from it. However, the default for a woman’s work, and for useful and productive work, is work in the home. There is work in the home that takes up her time. We see that women who went out to work outside the home were forced to bring in foreign maids to work in the houses, with the danger and precautions involved in bringing in maids. Therefore, the work of the home must either be done by the lady of the house or by a foreigner hired to do it. For this reason, the poet says—and poetry contains its wisdom—he says: “I do not say, let women be idle like men, roaming in the markets. In their homes, their affairs are many, like the affairs of the master of the sword and the spear.” Yes.