Women's rights are among the important issues in the field of human rights, which can be examined in the framework of the claim of equal rights of this group with men. What is certain is that contemporary human rights have spoken about the complete equality of the rights of men and women, while Islam, while emphasizing the human value of women, has placed justice and natural differences as the basis and criteria for the distribution of rights and duties between men and women. Women's rights in the Islamic human rights system are defined based on human dignity and moral values. By identifying the natural differences between men and women, Islam has determined certain rights and duties for women that are meaningful in the context of justice and social evolution. Among the criticisms of the contemporary human rights system to the Islamic system in the field of human rights are the unequal rights of women and men. This article aims to answer these questions with a descriptive-analytical method: Does the existence of apparently unequal rulings between men and women in Islam mean the degradation of the status of women compared to men in the Islamic approach? What is the philosophy and causes of the difference and inequality of the rights and duties of men and women in the Islamic human rights system? Through the investigations, it was found that equality is one of the values of Islamic thought, which can be considered as one of the foundations of Islamic human rights. It does not necessarily mean absolute equality. The need for justice is the main reason for the legal differences between men and women.