A Qualitative Study of the Barriers and Challenges of Motherhood among Employed Women in Tehran City

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SADEGHI RASOUL; Shahabi Zahra

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Journal: SOCIAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH IN IRAN Year:2018 | Volume:6 | Issue:4 Page(s): 715-734

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A Qualitative Study of the Barriers and Challenges of Motherhood among Employed Women in Tehran City

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SADEGHI RASOUL | Shahabi Zahra | Issue Writer Certificate

Keywords

ChildbearingQ1

Family Friendly PoliciesQ1

MotherhoodQ2

Qualitative StudyQ1

Role PressureQ1

Women's EmploymentQ1

Abstract

Employed women face with a lot of difficulties and challenges in their Motherhood process. The employed mothers usually have multiple roles, and they might be under the pressures of all these roles. In this paper, we aim to understand the perceptions and experiences of employed women from the Motherhood process, and the challenges associated with it. Using the qualitative research method and in-depth interviews with 30 highly educated employed married women, who are between 20 to 40 years old in Tehran city, the data was gathered. Then the data has was analyzed via a conventional qualitative content analysis approach. Results are derived and discussed in four categories including: the difficulty and joyfulness paradox of the Motherhood, multiple roles identity of the Motherhood, the roles pressures of being both a mother and an employee, and the carrier barriers to the Motherhood and Childbearing. Findings indicated that educated employed women experience more difficulties and challenges than the other mothers due to having multiple responsibilities as a mother, a wife, an employee and in some cases even as a student as well. Moreover, these women suffer from lack of essential social and family supports. In general, despite all the problems that employed women are facing with, they consider Motherhood as an important and valuable concept. However, this value is mainly led to having only one child due to the job conditions and lack of implementation of policies and support programs for these women.

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SADEGHI, RASOUL, & Shahabi, Zahra. (2018). A Qualitative Study of the Barriers and Challenges of Motherhood among Employed Women in Tehran City. SOCIAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH IN IRAN, 6(4 ), 715-734. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/242837/en

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SADEGHI RASOUL, Shahabi Zahra. A Qualitative Study of the Barriers and Challenges of Motherhood among Employed Women in Tehran City. SOCIAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH IN IRAN[Internet]. 2018;6(4 ):715-734. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/242837/en

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RASOUL SADEGHI, and Zahra Shahabi, “A Qualitative Study of the Barriers and Challenges of Motherhood among Employed Women in Tehran City,” SOCIAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH IN IRAN, vol. 6, no. 4 , pp. 715–734, 2018, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/242837/en

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