investigating the relationship between job/family role conflict and social factors: the case of employed women in kerman

taking both work and family roles in society simultaneously results in role conflict. this conflict may prevent one from performing each role effectively and this in turn may provoke serious work-family conflicts. usually there are more expectations for women concerning domestic and family affairs. the current study, applying merton’s theory, good’s theory and social support theory investigates factors affecting work and family role conflict among kerman employed women. the instrument used for data gathering in this survey is questionnaire. participants of the study included 400 employed and married women who had children. the results showed that nearly two third of women have experienced work – family conflicts at some level. variables like women educational level, traditional domestic division, and family expectations have a positive correlation with the level of conflicts experienced in family life. however, variables like age, work experience, number of children, family and work support have a negative correlation with work-family conflicts. the results of regression analysis show that sharing household duties, family support, job expectation, work experience and work supporting explains the 0.334 variance observed in the dependent variable.