A Comparison between Shared Activities for Single-worker Families and Duel-worker families (case study: Tehrani couples)

F. Modiri

Abstract
Some researchers believe that female employment decreases the shared activities of women with their husbands makes their marriage unstable. Therefore, this article attempted to study the effects of female employment on the shared activities in single-worker families and duel-worker families. The research population included all Tehrani married people and 1736 people were selected as our sample from 50 districts of Tehran city, using the multi-stage cluster sampling. In exploratory factor analysis, we extracted 5 items of shared activities such as social meeting, spending time outdoors, spending time indoors, conversation with the spouse, and financial expenditure. The findings revealed that the items like social meeting, spending time indoors and financial expenditure are higher in the duel-worker families than singleworker families. They also showed that the men's shared activities were more in the duel-worker families than the single-worker families, regarding spending outdoors time, spending indoors time and financial expenditure. In addition, the correlation of shared activities with marital happiness is higher among the females of duel-worker families than other groups. Generally speaking, we can say that not only the female employment does not decrease the shared activities, but also increase them among men and women. Therefore, we need to be more cautious in attributing the families' problems to the female occupations.
Keyconcepts: shared activities with spouse, Women's occupation, Dual-worker families, Single-worker families.

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