TY - JOUR ID - 50135 TI - Women’s Employment and the Socio-Emotional Functions of the Family in Iran JO - International Journal of Women's Research JA - IJWR LA - en SN - 2322-3901 AU - Hakimzadeh, Rezvan AU - Hashemi, Zeynab AU - Rafatjah, Maryam AD - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran AD - Master of adult education, university of Tehran. Instructor, Abadeh Tashk Branch, Islamic Azad University AD - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran Y1 - 2013 PY - 2013 VL - 2 IS - 2 SP - 33 EP - 44 KW - women’s employment KW - Family Functions KW - social adjustment KW - Academic achievement KW - Intimacy with spouse KW - Decision-making power DO - N2 - The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship betweenwomen’s employment and the socio-emotional functions of the family. For the purposeof this study, 300 women were selected through method among women livingin district 11 of Tehran. 199 individuals were unemployed and 101 individualswere employed. They responded a researcher-made questionnaire which measuredsocial and emotional functions of the family. Social functions of the family wereassessed in three aspects of children’s academic achievement, children’s social adjustment,and women’s decision-making power in the family. Furthermore, emotionalfunctions were assessed in two dimensions of women’s intimacy with theirhusbands and women’s involvement in making decisions about reproduction. Thefindings of the study indicated that in the social function of the family, there wasno relationship between women’s employment and children’s social adjustment andacademic achievement; however, there was a positive relationship between women’semployment and their decision-making power in the family. In the emotionalfunction of the family, there was no relationship between women’s employmentand their intimate relationships with their husbands or with their decision makingabout reproduction and fertility. UR - https://ijwr.ut.ac.ir/article_50135.html L1 - https://ijwr.ut.ac.ir/article_50135_9596dac661d281cbc790383b88416f48.pdf ER -