WOMENS STUDIES
Year:2010 | Volume:8 | Issue:1 (23)|Papers Count:9

Regarding the necessity of employing the intellectual capital, knowledge management has established in knowledge-based economy period, and it is developing by now. One of the main parts of this type of management is the human resources-as knowledge workers. The transition from industrial period to knowledge era and the need of establishing some knowledge-based organisations attach importance to performance of human resources, its measurement, and growth in knowledge management which evaluates such capital and the effectiveness of managerial process in organisations. As human plays the key role for developing efficiency in knowledge-based efforts, in this paper, we seek to present a method to measure the performance of women knowledge worker in different parts of an organisation, describe reasons of present conditions, and determine their priority to be considered.Based on the best decision-making procedures, dynamic behaviour analysis, and employingtime series, we try to recommend some solutions, and according to situations, offer the best option among different ones to improve performance of women knowledge worker.This method is verified in an Iranian organisation and validated by the content validity approach.

In spite of the importance of delivering extension services to improve socio­ economic status of rural women, due to some reasons such as lack of compatibility of extension program contents, which is a significant factor in the system, with the specific needs and conditions of rural women, the appropriate extension services has not been offered to them. Therefore, different studies have emphasized on improving extension services quality through aligning extension contents with such women requirements.Accordingly, the main purpose of this research is to investigate the appropriate contents of extension system for rural women in Khūzestān province. This is a survey-type and applied research. The statistical population of the study consists of 140 rural women of Khūzestān province, selected by method of proportionate stratified random sampling. The data is gathered through semi-open questionnaire and analysed with SPSS software, descriptive statistics (mean, percentage, etc.), and inferential statistics (Factor analysis).The findings show that the rural women give priority to support and execution of extension services contents in connection with data presented, training, and advisory on home economic, institutional capacity, training, and advisory on hand-craft and agriculture.

This article has been studied the relationship between communication models and couple satisfaction to examine the health of the family.Research samples selected randomly from 200 married and employed people (150 women and 50 men) in Tehran city. This research has been done by descriptive method (correlation) and data was gathered by employing two questioners: "The Communication Patterns Questionnaire (CPQ)" with three relation subscales (mutual constructive, mutual avoidance, and demand/withdraw communication) and a stability range from80 to 82 percent, and "Maudsley Marital Questionnaire (MMQ)" with 20 questions in different fields (sexual, non-sexual, and general questions). By Cronbach’s alpha, reliability of the questionnaire has been measured 87per cent for women and 86per cent for men. The statistical tests for this research were Pearson’s correlation, t-test for independent variables, and multivariable regression.Regarding the number of sample population, the results indicated positive and significant correlation between constructive communication patterns and satisfaction from matrimonial relationship in women, in other word, more constructive and without blaming/avoidance relationship leads to more couple satisfaction, especially among women.

Religious groups as the most prominent centre to exhibit rituals of bewailing are intertwined with social, cultural, and moral life of the believers.It always joins spiritual conditions and the lifestyle of Shia followers to its concordant worldview and ethics.By the Islamic Revolution of Iran, women’s participation in social activities has increased and it led to their more serious cooperation in religious ceremony and bewailing political, social, and economical changes. After revolution, the war and also growth of modernism transformed the beliefs and religious attitude of people, especially women. It also made a change in women’s understanding of religious and bewailing rituals structures that in its own caused to a transformation in such rituals as far as it concerned to the content and performance. By the late AP1370s (AD 1991–2000), new religious groups and reciting ways of eulogies emerged whose identical elements and structures differed from traditional one. In this research, we study these changes, qualities, and the related reasons of such changes.

BahramBeyzayī is one of the famous Persian writers that in some of his plays, the woman has significant role. In Shab-e Hezar o Yek-om (The Thousand and First Night), athree episodeplay, Beyzayī has focused on woman role and associated it by mythical image of Anahita throughmanipulating the statements survived from ancient stories and recreating them.In spite of suchmythical association, women of this play alsoperform their own real and natural role in the dominant patriarch system very well. They are clearsymbol signifying one or several human salient qualities thatare continuously in fight and struggle with the patriarch system. In this article, the woman’s role, actions, and reactions in Shab-e Hezar o Yek-om has been surveyed.

The main objective of this paper is to study on sharing mechanism of the joint house of couples. The dependent variable of the research is the home owner and theindependent ones are the amount of women cooperation in buying house, women’s decision making power, education, employment, and ratio of women’s income to their husbands’, the amount of women’s income spending at home, and the breadwinner idea.The 383 married women who live in Gorgan city, Golestan province, Iran, have been selected as research sample by multistage cluster sampling method.The results have shown that husbands more than wives, and employed women more than housekeeping wives share in the ownership of a house. Among indirect variables, the amount of women economic cooperation on buying house, their decision making power, and the breadwinner idea has significant relationship with dependent variables. Although other variable such as women education, employment, ratio of woman’s income to their husband’s, the amount of women’s income spendingat home have no direct effect on women sharing of house, it can play a considerable role to increase the possibility of women economic cooperation tobuying house.Therefore, based on the theoretical framework of the study, any social policy with restraining effect on women education, employment, and financial income, or, the ways reinforcing gender rolesconnected to women’s income and their cooperation in family economics, may prove effective on women economic situation in family and their portion of joint house sharing.

This research examined the effect of group gestalt therapy on self-esteem of divorced women, affiliated with Khorram-shahr Social Welfare office.The statistical population of this research were 60 divorced women of Welfare Office, have been selected through available sampling, and studied as two groups: an experimental and a control group. Data of the research gathered trough Depression subscale of “Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) ", "Eysenck Self-Esteem Inventory", and "Revised Felling of Loneliness Scale". As the research employed the Pretest-posttest control group design, the experimental and the control group selected randomly, and have been pretested, and then the Gestalt Therapy has been implemented on experimental group in 8 sessions. At the end, both groups have been post tested.In order to an alysis the assumption of the research the MANOVA and subsequent ANOVA have been used and it revealed group gestalt therapy has been decreased depression and loneliness, and increased self-esteem in experimental group, compared to control one.