Social S
Social Study of Family
Roles: Men's Changing Contribution in Housework
Nasrin
Esmaeilpour Mianji1, Marjan Masoumi2, Somayeh Mirseyedhosein3
1. MA Student of Social
Sciences , Payam Noor University , Tehran,Iran
2. MA Student of Social
Sciences , Payam Noor University , Shahriar,Iran
3. MA Student of Women's
Studies, Research Science University,
Tehran
Abstract:Most human societies assign different
roles to men and women. gradually, due to change of family structure and
effective factors such as income level or level of education and women's
contribution in the social fields and thought regarding equality of man and
woman, family roles changed, that is men also were drawn to private field of
family and cooperated with women in housework. This research tries to study the
extent to which contribution is done by men in addition to studying social
dimensions of housework division. This research started by use of survey method
and questionnaire tool in 22 districts of Tehran city by selecting a sample of
200 married men and women with children. Sampling method was based on
stratified sapling. On the basis of the results obtained form this research,
one can find out that by stratifying social strata with education level
criterion, the educated stratum has the most cooperation and contribution in
housework and by increasing satisfaction with common life, cooperation and
contribution in housework will increase. By studying on the obtained samples,
effect of factors relating to family social relations network and socioeconomic
base are visible in extent to which men contribute and cooperate.
[Nasrin Esmaeilpour Mianji, Marjan Masoumi, Somayeh Mirseyedhosein. Social Study of Family Roles: Men's Changing
Contribution in Housework. Life Sci J 2013;10(1):581-588]
(ISSN:1097-8135).http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 93
Keywords: family, Men's Changing Contribution ,Housework, cooperation, social relations, housework division. Full Text 93
