Is there a difference in the way men and women prostrate?
Question

                Is there a difference in the way men and women prostrate?.
Praise be to Allah.
    Some of the scholars are of the view that men and woman 
    should pray differently, and they quote a number of ahaadeeth as evidence 
    for that, but these are all da’eef (weak) and cannot be taken as evidence. 

    See the answer to question no.
    9276.  

    But the correct view is that there is no difference in the 
    way men and women pray. 

    Shaykh Muhammad ibn ‘Uthaymeen said, refuting the view of the 
    fuqaha’ that “women should not spread their arms out, rather they should 
    keep them close to their sides and when they prostrate they should press 
    their stomachs to their thighs and their thighs to their calves… because 
    they should conceal themselves, and compressing themselves is more 
    concealing than spreading out.” Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on 
    him) said: 

    This may be answered in several ways: 

    1 – This reason cannot stand up against the general meaning 
    of the texts which indicate that women are like men with regard to rulings, 
    especially since the Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon 
    him) said: “Pray as you have seen me praying,” and this is addressed in 
    general terms, including both men and women. 

    2 – This reason is redundant because usually, as is 
    prescribed, women pray alone in their houses with no men present. In that 
    case there is no need for them to compress themselves, so long as no men can 
    see them. 

    3 – You say that she raises her hands, and raising the hands 
    is more likely to uncover than spreading the arms when prostrating. But 
    despite that you say that it is Sunnah for her to raise her hands, because 
    the basic principle is that the rulings apply equally to men and women. 

    The correct view is: 
Women should do the same 
    things that men do in the prayer, so they should raise their hands and 
    spread their arms out when prostrating, and make their backs level when 
    bowing and lift their stomachs up off their thighs, and their thighs up off 
    their calves, when prostrating… they should sit on the left foot with the 
    right foot held upright when sitting between the two prostrations and in the 
    first tashahhud. In the last tashahhud of the prayer there is only one 
    tashahhud, and they should sit mutawarrikan (with the left upper thigh on 
    the ground and both feet protruding from one (the right) side) during the 
    final tashahhud of three- and four-rak’ah prayers. 

    There are no exceptions for women in any of these matters. 

    Al-Sharh al-Mumti’, 3/304, 303 

    Shaykh al-Albaani (may Allaah have mercy on him) said, at the 
    end of his book Sifat Salaat al-Nabi  (peace and blessings of Allaah 
    be upon him) (The Prophet’s Prayer Described): 

    “All that has been mentioned of the description of the 
    Prophet's prayer  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) applies 
    equally to men and women, for there is nothing in the Sunnah to necessitate 
    the exception of women from any of these descriptions; in fact, the 
    generality of his statement  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon 
    him), ‘Pray as you have seen me praying’, includes women” 

    If we assume that a woman is praying in a public place where men may see her, such as in the Haram in Makkah, or in a park – if she has to pray there – then she should be careful with regard to every action that may lead to uncovering any part of her, and take extra precautions in this case. And Allaah knows best.