If a woman works, does she have to pay the household expenses?
Question

                Does a woman who is employed have to pay the household expenses? Her husband is saying that if she does not pay the household expenses, she will not be allowed to work at all.
Does her husband have any right to the salary which she gets for her work? If she does have to pay towards the household expenses, how is that to be divided between her and husband?
Praise be to Allah. 
          They should come to some agreement concerning this issue 
          – the sharing of household expenses between a husband and wife who both 
          go out to work and earn a living – and avoid any dispute concerning 
          it.
 
          With regard to how that should be done, this depends 
          on a number of things, as discussed below:
 
          1 – If your husband stipulated in the marriage contract 
          that expenses are to be shared otherwise he will not let you work, then 
          the Muslims are bound by their conditions, as the Prophet SAWS (peace 
          and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
 
          “The Muslims are bound by their conditions, except for 
          conditions which forbid something that is permitted or permit something 
          that is forbidden.” And he SAWS (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon 
          him) said:
 
          “The conditions which are most deserving of fulfilment 
          are those by means of which sexual intimacy becomes permissible for 
          you.”  
 
          So you are bound by the conditions you made, if you made 
          any conditions [in your marriage contract].
 
          2 – If you did not make any conditions, then the household 
          expenses are all the responsibility of the husband, and the wife does 
          not have to pay any of the household expenses; he is the one who has 
          to pay them. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“Let the rich man spend 
          according to his means”
[al-Talaaq 65:7]
 
          And the Prophet SAWS (peace and blessings of Allaah be 
          upon him) said: “You are obliged to spend on them and clothe them according 
          to what is reasonable.”
 
          So spending is the obligation of the husband. He is the 
          one who should take care of the household needs and his own needs and 
          those of his wife and children. (The wife’s) money and salary belong 
          to her, because that is given in return for her work and her efforts. 
          (The husband) draw up the marriage contract on that basis, and he did 
          not stipulate any condition that she should pay the household expenses, 
          or half of them, etc. – unless she gives up any part of her salary of 
          her own good pleasure,  
“but if they, of their 
          own good pleasure, remit any part of it to you, take it, and enjoy it 
          without fear of any harm (as Allaah has made it lawful)”
[al-Nisaa’ 4:4]
 
          But if the marriage contract was drawn up on the basis 
          of any such condition, then the Muslims are bound by their conditions.
 
          But we advise you to give up part of your salary to your 
          husband in order to please him and to resolve the dispute and solve 
          the problem, so that you may live in peace and harmony. So agree upon 
          something between yourselves, such as one half of the salary, or one-third, 
          or one-quarter, etc., so that the problem will be solved and so that 
          love and harmony may take the place of conflict. Or perhaps he will 
          agree and be content with what Allaah has decreed for him, and he will 
          spend according to his means, and he will forego all of your salary 
          and have some pride concerning the matter. But if that is not possible, 
          then there is no reason why you should not refer the matter to the courts 
          in the city where you live, and whatever the shar’i court decides will 
          be sufficient, in sha Allah. May Allaah help you both.