the impact of women’s employmen on fertility in iran

working women compared with non-working women in iran bear a double burden ofresponsibility. they not only have to bear the traditional unpaid responsibilities of taking careof children and household chores they also have to bear the responsibilities of performingduties associated with their paid job outside the home. the double burden of responsibility forthe working women refers to the amount of work they do at home and outside the homecomparedwith non-working women. this article aims to quantify the additional work theiranian employed women do based on the number of their dependent children under the ageof 7 years. to do this, a comparison between the time allocated for paid and unpaid works by,respectively, working and non-working married women is made. the required data for theanalysis was provided by the iranian national center for statistics. the results indicated thatmarried working women with 0, 1 and 2 children work 3 hours and 6 minutes, 1 hour and 42minutes and 1 hour and 29 minutes, respectively, more than their non-working counterparts.the results also indicate that with an increase in the number dependent children the relativeintensity of double burden of working women decreases.