Abstract:
The scope and range of women's power are accompanied by limitations due to their fragile and vulnerable position in economic and social structures. One of the arenas through which one can delve into the issue of women's power is the decision-making process in everyday life. The aim of this research is to reconstruct the lived experience of married women regarding decision-making and to discover the contexts, consequences, and how women cope with the phenomenon of decision-making through the perception and subjective meaning of actions that women use to try to use everyday life situations as a source of power to increase their agency in the environment. This research was conducted using a qualitative approach and grounded theory method among married women in Sanandaj city. Purposeful and maximum diversity sampling methods were used to select samples, and semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. The results of interviews with 28 samples of Sanandaj women indicate that self-confidence, reflection and risk-taking, family support, gender stereotypes, (previous) decision-making experience, and available resources are considered as the contexts of women's decision-making. Reconstructing the meaning of women's experience and understanding of decision-making shows that women use strategies such as logical dialogue, doing responsibilities correctly and on time, independence and financial support, placing the husband in a fait accompli, not being satisfied with the status quo, raising expectations from married life, and women's strike to make decisions. The experience of decision-making has had consequences of feeling valuable, generalizing and deepening collective belonging, self-reliance, empowerment, and self-confidence for women.
Machine summary:
Backgrounds and Areas of Women's Decision-Making; Reconstructing the Meaning of Experience and Understanding of Women in Sanandaj City Omid Ghaderzadeh 1*, Pariush Hosseini 2 Abstract The scope and extent of women's power are accompanied by limitations due to their vulnerable position in economic and social structures.
Reconstructing the meaning of experience and women's understanding of decision-making shows that women use strategies such as logical dialogue, doing responsibilities correctly and on time, independence and financial support, involving the spouse in the implementation of the work, not being satisfied with the status quo, raising expectations from married life, and female strike to make decisions.
What is of interest in this research is the types of economic, cultural (forms of awareness, skill, and education) and social capital (resources based on relationships, membership, and a network of group influences and supports) that reciprocally reproduce each other and are decisive in how women function in the family field.
They believe that the more cultural, social, economic, and especially educational and behavioral capital women inherit from their fathers’ families, the They can have more independence in married life and take more steps to create decision-making situations and opportunities.
In interviews conducted with women, almost all of them considered education, awareness, social relationships with multiple groups, freedom, increased status with her husband, the power of analysis, age difference, length of years of marriage, greater understanding of oneself, and having intellectual capital as an integral part of influencing decision-making.
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