Female Headed Households in Iran (1976-2006)

被引:10
作者
Aghajanian, Akbar [1 ]
Thompson, Vaida [2 ]
机构
[1] Fayetteville State Univ, Dept Sociol, 1200 Murchison Rd, Fayetteville, AR 28301 USA
[2] Univ North Carolina Chapel Hill, Dept Psychol Emerita, Chapel Hill, NC USA
关键词
family; female headship; women's roles;
D O I
10.1080/01494929.2012.728558
中图分类号
D669 [社会生活与社会问题]; C913 [社会生活与社会问题];
学科分类号
1204 ;
摘要
Here we address the issue of female-headed households in Iran in an effort to discover whether the incidences, causes, and consequences are similar to those seen elsewhere in both developed and developing countries. In the United States such households are not always found to have resulted from involuntary, relatively homogeneous causes, but there is a persistent finding of associated poverty. From Iranian census data including the past 40 years, we found a rather dramatic, albeit not extremely large, countercultural increase in female-headed households; however, such households neither resulted from common causes nor led necessarily to poverty. We consider these results in relation to their implications about changes in family and women's roles in this highly transitional society in which tradition and modernity seem to coexist and family changes emerge slowly and selectively.
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页码:115 / 134
页数:20
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