the study of effects of women's employment on family and social relationships among women working in aran & bidgol

this study investigates the effect of women's employment on family and social relations in the city of aran & bidgol. the theoretical framework of research is role conflict theory. survey methods is used in this study and the statistical population included all women working in the city of aran & bidgol. using cochran's formula and simple random sampling, 250 married women were selected as research sample. statistical tests show that there is meaningful and direct relationship between conflictin social relations, conflict in housekeeping, conflict in spouse handling, conflict in children handling, age, number of children and work pressures. there is also an inverse relation between education and working pressure. in the multivariate analysis and path analysis among the four first variables, only two variables, namely conflictin social relations and conflict in housekeeping, entered into the regression equation and other variables are out of the equation. as a result, work pressure on employed women creates effects on their social relations and housekeeping that in trurn, creates new conflicts for them. the paper argues how role conflicts, in particular work pressures, can create risks for physical and mental health of working women.