چکیده:
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between
women’s employment and the socio-emotional functions of the family. For the purpose
of this study, 300 women were selected through method among women living
in district 11 of Tehran. 199 individuals were unemployed and 101 individuals
were employed. They responded a researcher-made questionnaire which measured
social and emotional functions of the family. Social functions of the family were
assessed in three aspects of children’s academic achievement, children’s social adjustment,
and women’s decision-making power in the family. Furthermore, emotional
functions were assessed in two dimensions of women’s intimacy with their
husbands and women’s involvement in making decisions about reproduction. The
findings of the study indicated that in the social function of the family, there was
no relationship between women’s employment and children’s social adjustment and
academic achievement; however, there was a positive relationship between women’s
employment and their decision-making power in the family. In the emotional
function of the family, there was no relationship between women’s employment
and their intimate relationships with their husbands or with their decision making
about reproduction and fertility
خلاصه ماشینی:
"The findings of the study indicated that in the social function of the family, there was no relationship between women’s employment and children’s social adjustment and academic achievement; however, there was a positive relationship between wom- en’s employment and their decision-making power in the family.
Ahmadi and Taghavi’s (2003) research - "The relationship between mothers’ employment and the children’s academic and behavioral performances" - suggests that the students in the fourth and fifth grades of primary school whose mothers were working, showed more social adjustment and academic achievement than the rest of the students.
Bagheri, Moltafet, and Sharifian (2009) believe that wom- en’s employment increases their decision-making power in their economic affairs, parenting, reproduction, leisure time activities, and also increases their political- social participation in the society.
The questions were designed in two parts: social functions (including children’s social adjustment and academic achievement and the women’s decision-making power in the family) and emotional functions (including the level of intimacy with the husband and how to make deci- sions about childbearing and the number of children in the family).
As the findings of the study show, in terms of the social functions of the fam- ily, women’s employment has no relationship with children’s social adjustment and academic achievement; but it has a significant relationship with women’s decision- making power in the family and indeed increases it.
The findings of this research suggest that women’s employment has no mean- ingful relationship with the social functions of the family, especially on the children’s academic achievement and social adjustment."