To study sociological lived experience of economically self-reliant women

Subject Areas : Social Science Quarterly

zohre Bozorgnezhad ¹ , maysam mousaei ² , reza moini ³

1 - phd of sociology
2 - Professor, Department of Social Planning, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran
3 - Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Azad University of Central Tehran

Received: 2019-11-27 Accepted : 2020-07-21 Published : 2020-11-21

Keywords: Women, Lived experience, economically self-reliant, role pre pressure,

Abstract :

One of the main transformations of Iran on the way of development is womens employment and making revenue. While women employment shows ascending trend, cultural-social conditions in society almost does not show suitable dynamics.so, in some cases women face with problems such as role pressure. Present study aims to analyze lived experience of economically self-reliant women and performs grounded theory method and data from semi-structured interviews from 31 eligible women were collected and were analyzed by theoretical coding and by MAXQDA software. Results showed that mostly studied women experience phenomenon based “role pressure”. Causal conditions of this phenomenon were explained by 3 types of “ financial need, maintain traditional role of house wifery, non social and family support”. Mediator conditions also achieved in the form of “age, education, husband education,distance from house to work place”. Some strategies women adopt when face with axial phenomenon are “ physical and mental empowerment, resiliency and adjustment, part time work,...” and the main consequences of these strategies are “ achieve social position, achieve economic and individual benefits, occupational, family and individual injuries”. The conclusion is todays the phenomenon of “role pressure” is observed among iranian working women,so, it is necessary the social system adopt policies in order to balance their traditional role and economic-social role.