Women, Paid - Work and the Family: In the Islamic Republic of Iran

Ghorayshi, Parvin

doi:10.3138/jcfs.27.3.453

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“…While a few authors have attempted to integrate relative resource and gender theories into a more predictive model of family work (see Ghorayshi, 1996;Grasmuck & Espinal, 2000;Zuo & Yanjie, 2001), we explore the possible role of another explanation here. We test the argument that the performance of emotion work, a type of unpaid family work itself, is associated with family work performance and satisfaction.…”

Section: Theories Of Domestic-labor Allocationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Family Work Performance and Satisfaction

Stevens

Minnotte²,

Mannon³

et al. 2006

Marriage & Family Review

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Using data taken from a random sample of married and cohabiting couples (N = 96), we examine the factors associated with a couple's division of unpaid family work. We extend the usual analyses by testing, in addition to gender ideology and relative resource factors, the role of a partner's emotion-work performance. We find that all three perspectives are relevant to the discussion of unpaid family work: gender ideology and relative resources are associated with the division of housework and child care, and partner's emotion-work performance is the most predictive of domestic-labor satisfaction.

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Section: Theories Of Domestic-labor Allocationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Family Work Performance and Satisfaction

Stevens

Minnotte²,

Mannon³

et al. 2006

Marriage & Family Review

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“…This type of discriminative climate in the work environment, which originates from management, makes entrance 661 Iranian women in the workforce into organizations and career progression quite difficult for Iranian women (Ghorayshi, 1996). Therefore, in order to be successful, Iranian women have to be twice as competent and work twice as hard as men in organizations, unless they are related to the elite families (Zahedi, 2003).…”

Section: Type Of Authoritymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At the same time, women's major participation in public organizations began to increase. The devastated post Iraq-Iran war economy compelled the state to allow more women to enter the labor market (Noshiravani, 2009), and since then the government has remained the main employer of women in Iran (Ghorayshi, 1996).…”

Section: Occupational Segregation In Iranian Workforcementioning

confidence: 99%

“…While many jobs were removed after the revolution in the private sector, the expansion of state bureaucracies created new jobs for women in the government (Ghorayshi, 1996). However, these jobs are mainly low-paid, low-skilled sales and office-based occupations, and teaching and health services (Ghorayshi, 1996).…”

Section: Occupational Segregation In Iranian Workforcementioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, as Ghorayshi (1996) mentions, women working in offices face the highest disapproval from their families and the society while those in teaching receive the most support. This may be a reason why many women prefer to obtain teaching jobs.…”

Section: Occupational Segregation In Iranian Workforcementioning

confidence: 99%

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Women, Paid - Work and the Family: In the Islamic Republic of Iran

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

Family Work Performance and Satisfaction

Family Work Performance and Satisfaction

The impact of bureaucracies and occupational segregation on participation of Iranian women in the workforce

Examining successful Iranian women entrepreneurs: an exploratory study

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